Job 5:13

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He has shown strength with his arm. He has 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, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't 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 has taken the wise in their craftiness."
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
  • Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, But his friendship is with the upright.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2 Sam 15:34 : 34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
  • Esth 6:4-9 : 4 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5 The king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. The king said, Let him come in. 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself? 7 Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set: 9 and let the clothing 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 delights 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 delights to honor. 10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken. 11 Then took Haman the clothing 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 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 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 on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made. 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

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

  • 1 Cor 3:18-20
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    18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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

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

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  • 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.

  • Job 5:14
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    14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Prov 14:8
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    8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, But the folly of fools is deceit.

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

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who is wise listens to counsel.

  • Prov 2:15
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    15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

  • Ps 7:15-16
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    15 He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.

    16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

  • Job 12:19-20
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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.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, And is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • 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.

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

    6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, But the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

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    25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • Prov 28:10-11
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    10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He will fall into his own trap; But the blameless will inherit good.

    11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes; But the poor who has understanding sees through him.

  • Prov 1:31-32
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    31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.

    32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Prov 6:14-15
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    15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

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    21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

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    9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

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    12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, And brings the wicked to ruin.

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

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    3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

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    3 I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

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    5 The thoughts of the righteous are just, But the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

  • Isa 5:21
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    21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!

  • Job 22:18
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    18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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    24 The crown of the wise is their riches, But the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: Whoever guards his soul stays from them.

  • Prov 5:22
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    22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

  • 1 Cor 1:19
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    19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

  • Prov 13:16
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    16 Every prudent man acts from knowledge, But a fool exposes folly.

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