Job 5:13
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 hands cannot perform their enterprise.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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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 with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Read in contextPsalms 9:15–16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Read in contextPsalms 7:15–16
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Read in contextLuke 1:51
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Read in context1 Corinthians 1:19–20
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Read in contextPsalms 35:7–8
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Read in contextEsther 9:25
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Read in contextPsalms 18:26
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
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