¹⁰ give help! let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it hath come to pass, when war happeneth, that it hath been joined, even it, unto those hating us, and hath fought against us, and hath gone out up of the land.'

¹⁹ this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.

³ Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

⁴ They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from `being' a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

²⁰ and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

¹² And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;

³⁰ There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

²⁵ There is a way right before a man, And its latter end -- ways of death.

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

² Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

⁶ and now, come, I pray thee, curse for me this people, for it `is' mightier than I; it may be I prevail -- we smite it -- and I cast it out from the land; for I have known -- that which thou blessest is blessed, and that which thou cursest is cursed.'