Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Bible References
Steps
Job 20:22
In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
Job 36:16
And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.
Psalm 18:36
Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.
Proverbs 4:12
In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.
His own
Job 5:12
Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
2 Samuel 15:31
and David declared, saying, 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, 'Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'
2 Samuel 17:14
And Absalom saith -- and all the men of Israel -- 'Better is the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah's bringing unto Absalom the evil.
Psalm 33:10
Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
Proverbs 1:30
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
Hosea 10:6
Also it to Asshur is carried, a present to a warlike king, Shame doth Ephraim receive, And ashamed is Israel of its own counsel.
1 Corinthians 3:19
for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, 'Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'