Job 5:13
Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
In Context
12Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
14By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31and David declared, saying, 'Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, 'Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'
2 Samuel 17:23And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
Psalms 7:15A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
Psalms 9:17The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.
Psalms 35:7For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged 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 →