Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Disappointeth

Job 12:16
“With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
Nehemiah 4:15
When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.
Psalm 33:10
The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
But the Lord sustains the righteous.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.
Isaiah 8:10
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For God is with us.”
Isaiah 19:3
“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them;
And I will confound their strategy,
So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead
And to mediums and spiritists.

Their hands

Psalm 21:11
Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.
Acts 12:11
When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”
Acts 23:12
When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

General references

Genesis 31:22
When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
2 Samuel 11:9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
Luke 20:8
And Jesus said to them, “Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
John 7:53
[Everyone went to his home.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”