Job 5:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

He catches the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is brought to a rapid end.

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  • Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He has shown strength with His arm; He has 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 debater of this age? Has 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 catches the wise in their own craftiness.
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the perverse you will show yourself contrary.
  • Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse person is an 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 you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2 Sam 15:34 : 34 But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant before, so will I now also be your servant: then you may 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 donkey, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in his father's sepulchre.
  • Esth 6:4-9 : 4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him. 5 And the king's servants said to him, Look, Haman stands in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. 6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself? 7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8 Let the royal robe be brought which the king wears, and the horse that the king rides on, and the royal crown which is set on his head: 9 And let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor, and lead him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor. 10 Then the king said to Haman, Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken. 11 Then Haman took the robe 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 to the man whom the king delights to honor.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's anger subsided.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 But when Esther 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 made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.

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