Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
World Messianic Bible British
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 frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is amongst the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
2 Samuel 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit 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 →