TSK · Proverbs 19:21

Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

"Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel."

This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

In time of security shall he come even on 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 prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.