"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong."
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And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,