Job 5:13
Who taketh the wise in their own craftiness, And bringeth to nought the counsel of the artful.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
In Context
12Who disappointeth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprises;
14They meet with darkness in the daytime; They grope at noon as if it were night.
Cross References
Psalms 7:15He made a pit and digged it. And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be driven into the underworld; Yea, all the nations that forger God.
Psalms 35:7For without cause they have laid for me a snare; Without cause they have digged for me a pit.
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 →