Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

International Standard Version

He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.

American Standard Version

He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Amplified


“He frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth.

Bible in Basic English

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

Darby Translation

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.

Julia Smith Translation

Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking.

King James 2000

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.

Modern King James verseion

frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand;

NET Bible

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

New Heart English Bible

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

The Emphasized Bible

Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;

Webster

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

World English Bible

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the devices
מחשׁבת מחשׁבה 
Machashabah 
Usage: 56

of the crafty
ערוּם 
`aruwm 
Usage: 11

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Response Continues

11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety. 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:15

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 man to his work.

Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

Job 12:16-17

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

Psalm 21:11

For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

Psalm 33:10-11

LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naught. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Psalm 37:17

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but LORD upholds the righteous.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.

Isaiah 19:3

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel of it. And they shall seek for the idols, and for the charmers, and for those who have familiar spirits, and for the wizards.

Isaiah 37:36

And the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Acts 12:11

And when Peter came to himself, he said, Now I know truly, that Lord dispatched his agent and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

Acts 23:12-22

And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.

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