Job 5:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.”
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“He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 5:12 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:22On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
- 1 Samuel 23:13Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.
- 2 Samuel 11:9But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
- 2 Samuel 17:14Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
- 2 Kings 6:9Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
- Nehemiah 4:9So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
- Nehemiah 4:15When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
- Job 12:16True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
- Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
- Psalms 33:10The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
- Psalms 37:17For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
- Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
- Proverbs 22:12The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
- Isaiah 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
- Isaiah 19:3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
- Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Isaiah 44:25who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
- Jeremiah 49:7Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
- Acts 12:11Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
- Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
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