TSK · Proverbs 19:21

Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

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 he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

A good person obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a person with wicked schemes.

A person plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the LORD.

They say,“Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.”

This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth; my hand is ready to strike all the nations.”

“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

In a time of prosperity for the most productive areas of the province he will come and accomplish what neither his fathers nor their fathers accomplished. He will distribute loot, spoils, and property to his followers, and he will devise plans against fortified cities, but not for long.

and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing,

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.