2 Samuel 15:31
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31 Then someone told David, saying, (A)“Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray, (B)turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
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Job 5:12-14
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12 (A)He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.
13 He catches the (B)wise in their own craftiness,
And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
And grope at noontime as in the night.
Psalm 33:10
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10 (A)The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
Isaiah 29:14
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14 (A)Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
(B)For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
Jeremiah 51:57
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57 “And I will make drunk
Her princes and (A)wise men,
Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says (B)the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts.
1 Corinthians 1:20
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20 (A)Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the [a]disputer of this age? (B)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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1 Corinthians 1:27
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27 But (A)God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;
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