Job 5:12
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
In Context
11Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;
13He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:13Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.
2 Samuel 17:14Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.
Nehemiah 4:9But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.
Job 12:16With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;
Psalms 33:10The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
Proverbs 21:30Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →