Job 5:12
Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
In Context
11To set the low on a high place, || And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
13Capturing the wise in their subtlety, || And the counsel of wrestling ones was hurried,
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:13And David rises—and his men—about six hundred men, and they go out from Keilah, and go up and down where they go up and down; and it has been declared to Saul that David has escaped from Keilah, and he ceases to go out.
2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom says—and all the men of Israel, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel”; and YHWH willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of YHWH’s bringing the calamity to Absalom.
Nehemiah 4:9And we pray to our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
Job 12:16With Him [are] strength and wisdom, || His the deceived and deceiver.
Psalms 33:10YHWH made void the counsel of nations, || He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, || Nor counsel against YHWH.
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 →