2Sa 15:34, 16:23, Job 5:12-14, Pro 19:21, 21:30, Isa 8:10, 1Cor 1:19-20 | ESV | STEP | But if you return to the city and say to Absalom , I will be your servant , O king ; as I have been your father’s servant in time past , so now I will be your servant , then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel .

2 Samuel 15:34

34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ^a‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

2 Samuel 16:23

23 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, ^bboth by David and by Absalom.

Job 5:12-14

12 He ^cfrustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
13 He ^dcatches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime
and ^egrope at noonday as in the night.

Proverbs 19:21

21 ^fMany are the plans in the mind of a man,
but ^git is the purpose of the Lord ^hthat will stand.

Proverbs 21:30

30 ⁱNo wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.

Isaiah 8:10

10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, ^jbut it will not stand,
for God ^kis with us. ^{▼▼The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel}

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

19 For it is written,

^m“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 ⁿWhere is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? ^oHas not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?