Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
In Context
11Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.
13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:13Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, and he forbore to go forth.
2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. And Jehovah had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, in order that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.
Nehemiah 4:9Then we prayed to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Job 12:16With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Psalms 33:10Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against Jehovah.
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 →