Job 12:17

If You Want To Learn

¹⁶ "Strength and sound wisdom [are] with him; [the] deceived and [the] deceiver [are] his. ¹⁷ He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges. ¹⁸ He loosens [the] fetters of kings, and he binds a loincloth on their loins.

Wise Men

Job

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his advice [was] not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order}, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.

Isaiah 29:14

therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular and a spectacle with this spectacular people. And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden."

2 Samuel 15:31

Now David [was] told, "Ahithophel [was] among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh."

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom).

Job 3:14

with kings and counselors of [the] earth, who {rebuild} ruins for themselves,

Job 9:24

The earth is given into [the] hand of [the] wicked; he covers the face of its judge-- if [it is] not [he], then who [is] it?

Isaiah 19:12-14

Where [are] your sages then? Now, let them tell you, and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has planned against Egypt.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound."