Job 5:13

He causes people who think that they [IRO] are wise to be trapped by the cunning things they try to do, with the result that they do not succeed.

Translation for Translators

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 causes crafty/cunning people to not be able to do what they plan to do, with the result that they achieve nothing.

14It is as though even in the daytime they are covered by darkness, and grope around trying to find the road at noontime like people do at night.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31Someone told David that Ahithophel had joined with those who were rebelling against David. So David prayed, “Yahweh, cause whatever Ahithophel suggests to Absalom that he should do to be considered to be foolish!”

2 Samuel 17:23When Ahithophel realized that Absalom was not going to do what he suggested, he put a saddle on his donkey and returned to his own town. He gave to his family instructions about his possessions, and then he hanged himself because he knew that Absalom would be defeated and that he would be considered a traitor and be killed. His body was buried in the tomb where his ancestors had been buried.

Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for hanging Mordecai! And then ◄the king’s anger cooled off/the king was no longer so angry►.

Psalms 7:15But when they dig a deep pit to trap others, they themselves will fall into it.

Psalms 9:17Wicked people will all die and be buried in their graves, and their spirits will go to be with all those who have ◄forgotten about/rejected► you.

Psalms 35:7Although I did not do anything wrong to them, they concealed a deep pit for me to fall into; they hid a net in which they would catch me.

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 →

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