Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
New American Standard Bible
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
so that they
International Standard Version
He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.
A Conservative Version
He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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.
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.
Themes
Craftiness » Who the lord takes in their own craftiness
Evil » Devices » Will be defeated
Philosophy » Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and his providence
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Response Continues
11 to set [the] lowly on high, and [those] mourning are lifted to safety. 12 [He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success. 13 [He] is capturing [the] wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:15
It happened when our enemies heard that their plan was known to us, that God had frustrated [it], and we all returned to the wall--each to his work.
Isaiah 8:10
{Make a plan}, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!
Job 12:16-17
"Strength and sound wisdom [are] with him; [the] deceived and [the] deceiver [are] his.
Psalm 21:11
Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.
Psalm 33:10-11
Yahweh brings to nothing [the] plan of nations; he frustrates [the] intents of peoples.
Psalm 37:17
For [the] arms of [the] wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh supports [the] righteous.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel to oppose Yahweh.
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of {the Egyptians} will be disturbed in his midst, and I will {confuse} his plans, and they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, and the ghosts and the spiritists.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When they rose in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses.
Acts 12:11
And [when] Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know truly that the Lord has sent out his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and all {that the Jewish people expected}!"
Acts 23:12-22
And [when it] was day, the Jews made a conspiracy [and] bound themselves under a curse, saying [they would] neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.