Job 5:13
Capturing the wise in their subtlety, || And the counsel of wrestling ones was hurried,
Literal 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
12Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.
14By day they meet darkness, || And as night—they grope at noon.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31and David declared, saying, “Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom”; and David says, “Please make the counsel of Ahithophel foolish, O YHWH.”
2 Samuel 17:23And Ahithophel has seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddles the donkey, and rises and goes to his house, to his city, and gives charge to his household, and strangles himself, and dies, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
Psalms 7:15He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, || And he falls into a ditch he makes.
Psalms 9:17The wicked turn back to Sheol, || All nations forgetting God.
Psalms 35:7For without cause they hid their net [in] a pit for me, || Without cause they dug 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 →