The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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

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.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

Come now therefore, I pray you, curse for me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the cunning is quickly ended.

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

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

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

The same dealt craftily with our kindred, and ill-treated our fathers, so that they exposed their infants, to the end that they might not live.

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.

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

And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.