Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 5:13 in other translations
| BSB | He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning. |
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| WEB | He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. |
| ASV | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. |
| YLT | Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened, |
| DARBY | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong: |
| BBE | He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly. |
| Webster | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. |
What does Job 5:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 5:6-16
Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin…
Job 5:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 5:13
- 1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
- Psalms 9:15-16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
- Psalms 7:15-16
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- Luke 1:51
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19-20
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
- Psalms 35:7-8
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
- Esther 9:25
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
- Psalms 18:26
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
- Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- 2 Samuel 15:31
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
- Proverbs 3:32
For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
- 2 Samuel 15:34
But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
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Context
- Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
- Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job 5:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Que prende á los sabios en la astucia de ellos, y el consejo de los perversos es entontecido; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il prend les sages dans leur ruse, et le conseil des astucieux est précipité: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | der die Weisen erhascht in ihrer List, und der Verschmitzten Rat überstürzt sich. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui apprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum, et consilium pravorum dissipat. |