Job 5:12
Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
In Context
11To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
13Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:13And David riseth — and his men — about six hundred men, and they go out from Keilah, and go up and down where they go up and down; and to Saul it hath been declared that David hath escaped from Keilah, and he ceaseth to go out.
2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom saith — and all the men of Israel — 'Better [is] the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;' and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah's bringing unto Absalom the evil.
Nehemiah 4:9And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
Job 12:16With Him [are] strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.
Psalms 33:10Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
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 →