'Inventions' in the Bible

Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

But I was like a gentle and tame lamb brought to the slaughter;And I did not know that they had devised plots and schemes against me, saying,“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit;Let us cut him off from the land of the living,That his name be remembered no longer.”

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

And he maketh in Jerusalem inventions -- a device of an inventor -- to be on the towers, and on the corners, to shoot with arrows and with great stones, and his name goeth out unto a distance, for he hath been wonderfully helped till that he hath been strong.

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.