Job 5:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 4:15 : 15 And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work;
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
  • Ps 33:10-11 : 10 Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples. 11 The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.
  • Job 12:16-17 : 16 With Him `are' strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver. 17 Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and `men' rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them `are' dead corpses.
  • Acts 12:11 : 11 And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'
  • Acts 23:12-22 : 12 And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul; 13 and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath, 14 who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves -- to taste nothing till we have killed Paul; 15 now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.' 16 And the son of Paul's sister having heard of the lying in wait, having gone and entered into the castle, told Paul, 17 and Paul having called near one of the centurions, said, `This young man lead unto the chief captain, for he hath something to tell him.' 18 He indeed, then, having taken him, brought him unto the chief captain, and saith, `The prisoner Paul, having called me near, asked `me' this young man to bring unto thee, having something to say to thee.' 19 And the chief captain having taken him by the hand, and having withdrawn by themselves, inquired, `What is that which thou hast to tell me?' 20 and he said -- `The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him; 21 thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves -- not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.' 22 The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged `him' to tell no one, `that these things thou didst shew unto me;'

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    13Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

  • Ps 33:10
    75%

    10Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

  • Job 34:25-26
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    25Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.

    26As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.

  • Job 5:11
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    11To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high `in' safety.

  • Job 12:14-17
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    14Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

    15Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

    16With Him `are' strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

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  • Job 18:7-10
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    7Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

    8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

    9Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

    10Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

  • Isa 44:25
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    25Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.

  • Job 12:19-22
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    19Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

    20Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

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    22Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.

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    2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

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    9Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled against a fortress cometh.

  • 1 Cor 3:19
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    19for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

  • Isa 31:2
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    2And He also `is' wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

  • Job 12:5-6
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    5A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

    6At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

  • Job 12:24-25
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    24Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!

    25They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

  • Prov 6:14-15
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    14Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

    15Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.

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    15And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

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    35To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,

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    12Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'

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    5Who is removing mountains, And they have not known, Who hath overturned them in His anger.

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    8Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.

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    10In whose hand `is' a wicked device, And their right hand `is' full of bribes.

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    16Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

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    31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

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    22And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life.

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    5Pain do his ways at all times, On high `are' Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them.

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    12The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.

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    17Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

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    3The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.