They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

The wicked in {his} pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. {The wicked...: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute}

{There is} no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof {are} the ways of death.

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. {under a curse: or, with an oath of execration}

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}

Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they {are} too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, {that} we may smite them, and {that} I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest {is} blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. {bringeth: Heb. maketh frustrate}

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from {being} a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.

Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing {was} as to devour the poor secretly. {came...: Heb. were tempestuous}

Now I know that the LORD {is} greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly {he was} above them.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves {of} gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. {and shall...: or, but he shall lift up his staff for}