Job 18:7
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7 Their strong steps are shortened,
and their own schemes throw them down.(A)
Proverbs 4:12
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12 When you walk, your step will not be hampered,
and if you run, you will not stumble.(A)
Psalm 18:36
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36 You gave me a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip.
1 Corinthians 3:19
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19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written,
“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”(A)
Hosea 10:6
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6 The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
as tribute to the great king.[a]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.[b](A)
Proverbs 1:30-32
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30 would have none of my counsel
and despised all my reproof,(A)
31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
and be sated with their own devices.(B)
32 For waywardness kills the simple,
and the complacency of fools destroys them;(C)
Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.(A)
Job 36:16
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16 He also allured you out of distress
into a broad place where there was no constraint,
and what was set on your table was full of fatness.(A)
Job 20:22
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22 In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
all the force of misery will come upon them.
Job 15:6
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6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
your own lips testify against you.(A)
Job 5:12-13
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12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.(A)
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
2 Samuel 17:14
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14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring ruin on Absalom.(A)
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2 Samuel 15:31
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31 David was told that Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”(A)
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