He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

他把谋士剥衣掳去，又使审判官变成愚人。

他把谋士剥衣掳去，使审判官变为愚妄。

他把谋士剥衣掳去，使审判官变为愚妄。

祂使谋士赤身被掳，使审判官愚拙不堪。

他把谋士剥衣掳去，并且愚弄审判官。

他把謀士剝衣擄去，又使審判官變成愚人。

他把謀士剝衣擄去，使審判官變為愚妄。

他把謀士剝衣擄去，使審判官變為愚妄。

祂使謀士赤身被擄，使審判官愚拙不堪。

他把謀士剝衣擄去，並且愚弄審判官。

他把謀士擄去，衣服都給剝奪了；他使審判官變成了狂妄人。

褫謀夫、攜之去、使士師為愚、

使謀臣被虜、士師為狂。

使謀士陷於差謬、或作使謀臣被擄使士師顛狂、

He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.

He removes the wisdom of rulers and leads them away. He makes judges look foolish.

He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

He leads counselors away, stripped of good judgment; wise judges become fools.

He leads counselors away barefoot and makes judges go mad.

He makes advisers walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.

He leads counselors away plundered, And makes fools of the judges.

He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.

He leads counselors away barefoot and makes judges go mad.

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

Now David had been told,“ Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed,“ Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O LORD!”

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the LORD had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the LORD could bring disaster on Absalom.

But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the LORD who commands armies has planned for Egypt.The officials of Zoan are fools, the officials of Memphis are misled; the rulers of her tribes lead Egypt astray.The LORD has made them undiscerning; they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.

For it is written,“ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?