Job 5:12

World English Bible (2000)

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

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  • Neh 4:15 : 15 It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
  • Ps 33:10-11 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. 11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
  • Job 12:16-17 : 16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. 17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  • Acts 12:11 : 11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."
  • Acts 23:12-22 : 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near." 16 But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul. 17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him." 18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you." 19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?" 20 He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. 21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you." 22 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."

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    13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

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    10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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    11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

  • Job 34:25-26
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    25Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

    26He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

  • Job 5:11
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    11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

  • Job 12:14-17
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    14Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

    15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

    16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

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  • Job 18:7-10
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    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

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    10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

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    25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

  • Job 12:19-22
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    19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

    20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

    21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

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    2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • Amos 5:9
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    9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • 1 Cor 3:19
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    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

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    5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

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  • Job 12:24-25
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    24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

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    14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

    15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

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    15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

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    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

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    10in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

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    16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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    22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

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    31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

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    17For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

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    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.