Job 5:12
10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
11 He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
13 He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
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Compare
- BSB
- He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
- KJV
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- WEB
- He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
- ASV
- He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- DARBY
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
- BLB
- [He] is breaking the plots of the crafty, and their hands cannot execute wisdom.
- ÅB
- som gjør de kløktiges råd til intet, så deres hender ikke får utrettet noe som varer,
- OTB
- Han forhindrer de klokes planer,
Slik at deres hender ikke kan oppnå suksess. - B1930
- som gjør de kløktiges råd til intet, så deres hender ikke får utrettet noget som varer,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 33:10–11
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
Read in contextPsalms 21:11
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Read in contextIsaiah 8:10
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
Read in contextProverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 37:17
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Read in contextActs 12:11
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
Read in contextIsaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
Read in contextNehemiah 4:15
When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
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