Job 5:12
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
In Context
11Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
13Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and departing from Ceila, wandered up and down uncertain where they should stay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.
2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said: The counsel of Chusai the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel: and by the will of the Lord the profitable counsel of Achitophel was defeated, that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.
Nehemiah 4:9And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.
Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver, and him that is deceived.
Psalms 33:10The Lord bringeth to naught the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel 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 →