Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
…and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
Many seek the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend of the gift giver.
Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.