Job 5:12

Translations

Modern

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Traditional

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Literal

He is breaking the plots of the crafty, and their hands cannot execute wisdom.

Latin

…qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum, ne possint implere manus eorum quod cœperant;

Original

Hebrew

English

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Notes

Job 5:9–16

Eliphaz praised God as the creator and and the one who sustains the universe who performs wonders (5:9–10). He also praised God as the righteous judge who humbles the powerful and honors poor people (5:11–16).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Psalm 33:10–11
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
Psalm 21:11
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Isaiah 8:10
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
Acts 12:11
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
Nehemiah 4:15
When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
Job 12:16–17
True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
Acts 23:12–22
When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Isaiah 19:3
Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Consolation In Faith: Eliphaz, in the Overruling Providence of God, That Afflictions are for the Good of the Righteous God: Providence of, Overruling Interpositions of The God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Philosophy: Philosophical Inductions and Deductions Relating to God and his Providence Righteous: Promises To, Expressed or Implied The Hands: God Makes Impotent

Job 5:12

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