18 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Judgment
• Sovereignty of God
• Wisdom

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 1:19 — For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
• 1Cor 1:20 — 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?
• 1Cor 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
• 1Cor 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
• 1Kgs 12:15 — Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
• 2Chr 10:8 — But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
• 2Sam 15:12 — And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with
• 2Sam 15:31 — 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.
• 2Sam 15:31 — 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.
• 2Sam 15:34 — 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
• 2Sam 16:23 — And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
• 2Sam 16:23 — And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
• Eccl 9:11 — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skil
• Gen 32:28 — And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
• Gen 45:5 — Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
• Isa 8:10 — Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Jer 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him wit
• Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
• Job 17:4 — For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
• Lam 3:37 — Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
• Luke 16:8 — And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
• Neh 4:15 — And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
• Prov 19:21 — There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
• Prov 21:30 — There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
• Ps 5:10 — Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
• Ps 33:9 — For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
• Ps 33:10 — The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.