TSK · Proverbs 19:21

And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

¶ But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.

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

¶ A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

¶ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

¶ [There is] no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of Tabeal:

This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do [that] which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: [yea], and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.