2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the people of Israel said: The advice of Hushai from Archi's family is better than Ahithophel's advice. Jehovah commanded Ahithophel's good advice to be defeated in order to ruin Absalom.
2 Samuel 15:34
Go back into the city and tell Absalom: Your Majesty, I am your servant. I will serve you just as I served your father in the past. Hushai, if you do that you can help me ruin Ahithophel's plans.
2 Samuel 15:31
Someone told David: Ahithophel is helping Absalom conspire against you! David said: Please Jehovah keep Ahithophel's plans from working!
2 Samuel 16:23
Any advice that Ahithophel gave in those days was accepted as though it were the very word of God. David and Absalom followed it.
Genesis 32:28
The man said: Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel (He Struggles With God), because you have struggled with God and with men and you have won.
Exodus 9:16
I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you my power and in order to proclaim my name through all the earth.
Deuteronomy 2:30
King Sihon of Heshbon would not allow us to pass through. Jehovah your God made him stubborn and overconfident in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.
2 Chronicles 25:16
The king asked him: Did we make you an adviser to the king? Stop! Do you want me to have you killed? The prophet stopped. He said: I know that God has decided to destroy you because you did this. Yet you refuse to listen to my advice.
2 Chronicles 25:20
But Amaziah would not listen. God made this happen because he wanted to hand over the Judeans to Jehoash because they had sought help from Edom's gods.
Job 5:12-14
He keeps shrewd (crafty) (cunning) people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully.
Psalm 9:16
Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds.
Psalm 33:9-10
He spoke and it was done! He commanded and it stood fast.
Proverbs 19:21
Many intentions are in men's hearts. Only counsel from Jehovah will stand.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah!
Isaiah 8:10
Make plans for battle, but they will never succeed. Give orders, but they will not be carried out, because God is with us!
Lamentations 3:37
Who is able to say something should occur if Jehovah has not ordered it.
Amos 9:3
Though they hide on top of Mount Carmel I will search and find them and take them from there. Though they hide from my sight on the bottom of the sea I will command the serpent to bite them.
Luke 16:8
The master of the dishonest manager praised him for doing a shrewd thing. People of this world are more astute at handling their affairs than people who belong to the light.
1 Corinthians 1:19-20
It is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. (Isaiah 29:14)
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. It is written: He catches the wise in their own craftiness (deception). (Job 5:13)