inventions

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

And ere the present years were sought out, and or ever the inventions of them that now sin were turned, before they were sealed that have gathered faith for a treasure:

Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen, but the desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions.

And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;

Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions: therefore saith God,

Surely he knoweth your inventions, and what ye think in your hearts, even them that sin, and would hide their sin.

For it would be utterly foolish to suppose that any one became a god in virtue of his inventions.