Job 5:12

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Summary

Job 5:12

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

Disappointeth

Isaiah 19:3

Their hands

General references

1 Corinthians 1:19

Bible References

Disappointeth

With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to naught, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his work.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he maketh the devices of the people of no effect.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her, and I will destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Their hands

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

And when Peter had come to himself, he said, Now I know with certainty, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

General references

And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

And Jesus said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

And every man went to his own house.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.