1. God, thwart their evil plans: "He makes the devices of the crafty useless, So their hands cannot carry out what they intended." (Job 5:12)
2. Turn their wisdom to folly: "He overturns and overthrows plans; He removes wise counselors, And fools are confounded." (Isaiah 44:25)
3. Confuse their understanding: "He leads wise counselors away as plunder, And judges lose their understanding." (Isaiah 47:10)
4. Expose their hidden schemes: "For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light." (Luke 8:17)
5. Uncover their secret plots: "The counsel of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the plans of the pure are pleasant to Him." (Proverbs 15:26)
6. Redirect their efforts against themselves: "Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him." (Proverbs 26:27)
7. Use their foolishness for my good: "For this reason the Lord your God delivered your enemies over to you." (Deuteronomy 2:33)
8. Bring their schemes to naught: "Their hands will be against one another, And the hand of all of them will be against their neighbor." (Zechariah 11:6)
9. Grant me wisdom to discern their tricks: "For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense, But the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it." (Ecclesiastes 7:12)
10. Protect me from their crafty traps: "Preserve me, O God, from the hands of the wicked, From violent men who intend to cut off my life." (Psalm 140:4)
11. Stand as a shield against their attacks: "Our feet are on a level path; Therefore we do not stumble. Even in the darkness, we pursue them; They are overthrown and cannot rise; They fall beneath our feet." (Job 12:5-6)
12. Reveal their true intentions: "Their thoughts are deceitful; Their feet run to evil; They devise wicked schemes; They speak lies." (Psalm 36:3-4)
13. Expose their empty threats: "They have imagined a plot, but it will not succeed; They have devised a scheme, but it will not come about." (Job 42:23)
14. Cause their plans to backfire: "He will bring back on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own evil; The Lord our God will cut them off." (Psalm 94:23)
15. Grant me victory over my adversaries: "You will declare war against them, And the Lord will fight for you; You need only remain silent." (Exodus 14:14)
16. Vindicate me before my accusers: "Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, From the grasp of the unjust and cruel man." (Psalm 71:4)
17. Turn their bitterness into blessing: "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." (Genesis 50:20)