Job 5:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹכֵ֣ד חֲכָמִ֣ים בְּעָרְמָ֑ם וַעֲצַ֖ת נִפְתָּלִ֣ים נִמְהָֽרָה׃

Transliteration

lōkēd ḥăkāmîm in-ʿārəmām wa-ʿăṣat niftālîm nimhārāh

Grammar Details

• *lōkēd*: Qal participle, masculine singular - catching/seizing
• *ḥăkāmîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wise ones
• *ʿārəmām*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their craftiness
• *wa*: conjunction with consecutive verb - and
• *ʿăṣat*: noun, feminine singular construct - counsel of
• *niftālîm*: Niphal participle, masculine plural - twisted ones/crafty ones
• *nimhārāh*: Niphal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - is hurried/precipitated

Word Meanings

• *lōkēd*: catcher/seizer/entrapper
• *ḥăkāmîm*: wise ones/wise men/sages
• *ʿārəmām*: their craftiness/cunning
• *ʿăṣat*: counsel of/advice of
• *niftālîm*: twisted ones/crooked ones/perverse ones
• *nimhārāh*: is hurried/precipitated/carried headlong

Referenced Verses

• Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {H1902} Selah}
• Luke 1:51 : 51 He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
• 1 Cor 1:19-20 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
• 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
• Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
• Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.
• 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
• 2 Sam 15:34 : 34 but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
• 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
• Esth 6:4-9 : 4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. 6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself? 7 And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor, 8 let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on the head of which a crown royal is set: 9 and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor. 10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken. 11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.
• Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
• Esth 9:25 : 25 but when [the matter] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.