Deuteronomy 32:29

Void of counsel. The word here translated “void” is from the verb “to perish,” “to destroy,” “to be lost,” and is so translated in practically every instance of the some 200 times the verb is found in the OT. It can be rendered “perishing of counsel.” That is, they were following thoroughly bad counsel given by false shepherds, and were perishing as a result (see Jer. 18:18). For other texts using this root, see Lev. 26:38; Joshua 23:16; 2 Kings 9:8; Esther 4:16; Job 18:17; etc. The precise form used here is also translated as “perish” (Deut. 26:5; Job 4:11; 29:13; 31:19), “broken” (Ps. 31:12), and “lost” (1 Sam. 9:20; Ps. 119:176).