Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
Darby Translation
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 disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
14They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31And one told David saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Then said David, Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went to his house, to his city, and gave charge to his household, and hanged himself, and he died; and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.
Psalms 7:15He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 35:7For without cause have they hidden for me their net [in] a pit; without cause they have digged [it] for my soul.
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 →