Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
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 on high those who are low, so that those who mourn may be lifted up to safety; 12 frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:15
And it happened when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.
Isaiah 8:10
Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated. Speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
Job 12:16-17
With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.
Psalm 21:11
For they intended evil against You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail.
Psalm 33:10-11
Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He breaks the plots of the people.
Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but Jehovah upholds the righteous.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy its wisdom. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the future-tellers.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They were all dead corpses.
Acts 12:11
And having come to himself, Peter said, Now I know surely that the Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Acts 23:12-22
And when it became day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.