Job 5:12 “He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no succ…”

Job 5:12

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

World English Bible

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

American Standard Version

He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Geneva Bible 1599

He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

Darby Translation

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.

Young's Literal Translation

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Bible in Basic English

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

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Cross references

“disappointeth”

Isaiah 8:10 Proverbs 21:30 Psalm 37:17 Nehemiah 4:15 Isaiah 19:3 Job 12:16

Isaiah 8:10 · BSB

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us. ”

Proverbs 21:30 · BSB

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Psalm 37:17 · BSB

For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Nehemiah 4:15 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 19:3 · BSB

Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.

Job 12:16 · BSB

True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

“their hands”

Psalm 21:11 Isaiah 37:36 Acts 12:11 Acts 23:12–22

Psalm 21:11 · BSB

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

Isaiah 37:36 · BSB

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!

Acts 12:11 · BSB

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.”

Acts 23:12–22 · BSB

When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

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