Job 5:13
He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
In Context
12He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.
14They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31Then it was reported to David that Ahithophel also had joined in swearing with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I beg you, to uncover the foolishness of the counsel of Ahithophel.”
2 Samuel 17:23Then Ahithophel, seeing that his counsel had not been done, saddled his donkey, and he rose up and went away to his own house and to his own city. And putting his house in order, he killed himself by hanging. And he was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Esther 7:10And so Haman was hanged on the gallows, which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger was quieted.
Psalms 7:15Behold him who has given birth to injustice: he has conceived sorrow and has begotten iniquity.
Psalms 9:17The Lord will be recognized when making judgments. The sinner has been caught in the works of his own hands. Pause
Psalms 35:7Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O 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 →