⁷ The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened.
    Their own schemes will be their downfall.

¹² When you walk, you won’t be held back;
    when you run, you won’t stumble.

³⁶ You have made a wide path for my feet
    to keep them from slipping.

“He traps the wise
    in the snare of their own cleverness.”^[a]

⁶ This idol will be carted away to Assyria,
    a gift to the great king there.
Ephraim will be ridiculed and Israel will be shamed,
    because its people have trusted in this idol.

³⁰ They rejected my advice
    and paid no attention when I corrected them.
³¹ Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
    choking on their own schemes.
³² For simpletons turn away from me—to death.
    Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

¹⁰ The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
    and thwarts all their schemes.

¹⁶ “God is leading you away from danger, Job,
    to a place free from distress.
    He is setting your table with the best food.

²² “In the midst of plenty, they will run into trouble
    and be overcome by misery.

⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, not I.
    Your own lips testify against you.