Job 5:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall 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 shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and 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."

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Ps 33:10
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    10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

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

  • Job 5:11
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    11 So 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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    14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

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

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

    17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

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

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

    9 A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

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

  • Isa 44:25
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    25 who 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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    19 He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.

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

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

    22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak; They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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

  • 1 Cor 3:19
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    19 For 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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    2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5 Because they don't regard 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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    8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Job 12:5-6
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    5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.

    6 The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands.

  • Job 12:24-25
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    68%

    24 He 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.

    25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Prov 6:14-15
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    14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who always sows discord.

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

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

  • Job 38:15
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    15 From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.

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

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    12 Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

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    5 Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger

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    8 One who plots to do evil Will be called a schemer.

  • Ps 26:10
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    10 In whose hands is wickedness, Their right hand is full of bribes.

  • Ps 7:15
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    15 He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.

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    17 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

  • Job 21:16
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    16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Job 15:31
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    31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

  • Job 24:22
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    22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

  • Prov 1:31
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    31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.

  • Job 11:10
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    10 If he passes by, or confines, Or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

  • Ps 10:5
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    5 His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, And brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Prov 1:17
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    17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

  • Prov 19:3
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    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against Yahweh.