Quotes About Cunning

She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her fatherís household idols.

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacobís sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horseís heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.

Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

They entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

When Absalomís servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,