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 fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Job 36:16
Even so would he have removed you out of the distress into a broad place, where there is no restraint; and that which should be set on your table should be full of richness.
Psalm 18:36
You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.
Proverbs 4:12
When you go, your steps shall not be hindered; and when you run, you shall not stumble.
His own
Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.
2 Samuel 15:31
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 17:14
And 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 purposed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
Psalm 33:10
The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.
Proverbs 1:30
They would have none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Hosea 10:6
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.