Job 12:17

If You Want To Learn

¹⁶ “With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
¹⁷ “He makes counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.
¹⁸ “He loosens the bond of kings
And binds their loins with a girdle.

Wise Men

Job

2 Samuel 17:23

Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous;
And the wisdom of their wise men will perish,
And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed.”

2 Samuel 15:31

Now someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness.”

2 Samuel 17:14

Then 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 thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring calamity on Absalom.

Job 3:14

With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;

Job 9:24

“The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges.
If it is not He, then who is it?

Isaiah 19:12-14

Well then, where are your wise men?
Please let them tell you,
And let them understand what the Lord of hosts
Has purposed against Egypt.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”