Job 5:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward 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 heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
• Luke 1:51 : 51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• 1 Cor 1:19-20 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
• 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
• Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged{H8804)} for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares{H8799)}; and let his net that he hath hid{H8804)} catch{H8799)} himself: into that very destruction let him fall{H8799)}.
• Prov 3:32 : 32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
• 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, 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 hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat 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 to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and 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 honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? 7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, 8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: 9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him 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 honour. 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 brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
• 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 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.
• Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He 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 violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.