Job 5:13
11 He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
12 He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
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.
15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
- KJV
- He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
- WEB
- He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- ASV
- He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- DARBY
- He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
- BLB
- He is catching the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of those being deceptive is hurried.
- ÅB
- han som fanger de vise i deres kløkt og lar de listiges råd bli forhastet;
- OTB
- Han fanger de vise i deres egen list,
Og de kløktiges råd blir raskt omstyrtet. - B1930
- han som fanger de vise i deres kløkt og lar de listiges råd bli forhastet;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
Read in contextPsalms 9:15–16
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
Read in contextPsalms 7:15–16
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Read in contextLuke 1:51
He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
Read in context1 Corinthians 1:19–20
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Read in contextPsalms 35:7–8
For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
Read in contextEsther 9:25
But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Read in contextPsalms 18:26
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
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