Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
American Standard 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 frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O 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 gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king`s wrath pacified.
Psalms 7:15He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] 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 →