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

他叫有智慧的中了自己的诡计，使狡诈人的计谋速速灭亡。

他使有智慧的人中了自己的诡计，叫狡诈人的计谋速速落空。

他使有智慧的人中了自己的诡计，叫狡诈人的计谋速速落空。

祂使智者中了自己的诡计，使奸徒的计谋迅速落空。

他使有智慧的人中了自己的诡计，使奸诈人的谋算快快失败。

他叫有智慧的中了自己的詭計，使狡詐人的計謀速速滅亡。

他使有智慧的人中了自己的詭計，叫狡詐人的計謀速速落空。

他使有智慧的人中了自己的詭計，叫狡詐人的計謀速速落空。

祂使智者中了自己的詭計，使奸徒的計謀迅速落空。

他使有智慧的人中了自己的詭計，使奸詐人的謀算快快失敗。

他在智慧人自己的狡猾中捉住他們，使邪曲人的計謀迅速地失敗。

令智者自中其詭計、使譎者之謀早敗、

譎者巧於計、反害及身、謀愈狡者、敗愈速、

使巧者陷於己之狡計、使譎者之謀速敗、

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.

Some people think they are so wise. But God catches them in their own tricks. He sweeps away the evil plans of sinful people.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted.

He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end.

He captures the wise by their own cleverness, And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

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

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit[ that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.The LORD is known[ by] the judgment[ which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.Where[ is] the wise? where[ is] the scribe? where[ is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king;[ as] I[ have been] thy father’s servant hitherto, so[ will] I now also[ be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

For without cause have they hid for me their net[ in] a pit,[ which] without cause they have digged for my soul.Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled[ his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

And the king said, Who[ is] in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,Let the royal apparel be brought which the king[ useth] to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man[ withal] whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.Then the king said to Haman, Make haste,[ and] take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

For the froward[ is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret[ is] with the righteous.

But when[ Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

And[ one] told David, saying, Ahithophel[ is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch[ which] he made.His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.