Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
In Context
11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
2 Samuel 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom.
Nehemiah 4:9But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.
Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Psalms 33:10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
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 →