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Job 5:12
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He frustrates the schemes of the craftyso that they achieve no success.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
He ruins the plans of those who trick others so they have no success.
He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!
"He frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty, So that their hands cannot attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth.
"He frustrates the schemes of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
He frustrates the thoughts of the crafty,So that their hands cannot attain success of sound wisdom.
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
God swiftly traps the wicked
He frustrates the schemes of the cunning, so that they achieve no success;
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
He spoils the plans of even the smartest people so that they will not succeed.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot wisely perform their enterprise.
He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds; <
He is frustrating the devices of the crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
breaking the plots of the crafty, nor did their hands perform the undertaking.
Which destroyeth the deuyces of the sotyll, so that they are not able to perfourme the thynges that they take in hode:
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
He destroyeth the deuices of the subtyll, so that their handes are not able to perfourme that which they do enterprise.
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.
Hee disappointeth the deuices of the craftie, so that their hands cannot performe their enterprise.
frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Which distrieth the thouytis of yuel willid men, that her hondis moun not fille tho thingis that thei bigunnen.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.
He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed.
He troubles the plans of those who try to fool people, so that their hands cannot do what they plan.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
"He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
disappointeth: Job 12:16, Job 12:17, Nehemiah 4:15, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 37:17, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 19:3
their hands: Psalms 21:11, Isaiah 37:36, Acts 12:11, Acts 23:12-22
their enterprise: or, anything
Reciprocal: Genesis 11:7 - confound Genesis 31:22 - General Genesis 41:8 - but there 2 Samuel 1:15 - Go near 2 Samuel 11:9 - General 2 Samuel 15:31 - turn the counsel 2 Samuel 16:23 - all the counsel 2 Samuel 17:14 - to defeat 2 Kings 6:8 - took Ezra 6:13 - so they did Job 18:7 - his own Job 37:7 - He Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 140:8 - Grant not Psalms 146:9 - the way Proverbs 22:12 - he Isaiah 19:11 - the princes Isaiah 44:25 - turneth Jeremiah 8:8 - We Jeremiah 8:9 - The wise men are Jeremiah 9:23 - wise Jeremiah 19:7 - I will make Jeremiah 49:7 - Is wisdom Daniel 2:27 - cannot Obadiah 1:8 - even Matthew 2:8 - go Mark 12:17 - And they Luke 10:21 - thou hast Luke 20:8 - General Luke 20:26 - they could John 7:53 - General John 8:9 - went out Acts 5:38 - for 1 Corinthians 1:19 - General
Cross-References
Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty,.... Or, "it disappointeth"; that is, the rain, as some Jewish commentators m interpret it, and the whole paragraph to this sense; the rain coming upon the earth makes it fruitful, and causes it to produce a plentiful crop, whereby the schemes of crafty men are disappointed, who in a time of drought withhold the corn, and enhance the price of it, and distress the poor; and this in order to make a penny of them, according to Amos 8:4; but through the rain falling are not able to gain their end, but are obliged to bring out their corn, and sell it at a low price, and so are taken in their own craftiness; their counsel becomes brutish, and they are brought into bad circumstances themselves, and the poor saved from being ground and oppressed by them, and have hope for the future of plenty of provisions, to the confusion and astonishment of their oppressors: but the Targum interprets this of the Egyptians cunningly devising mischief against the Israelites, without success; and not amiss, since that affair might be well known to Eliphaz, and he might have it in view: the fact was this, a new king of Egypt, after the death of Joseph, observing the great increase of the people of Israel in his dominions, and fearing, in case of a war, they should join the enemy, and get out of the land by such an opportunity, calls his nobles, courtiers, and counsellors together, to form some wise schemes how to diminish them, Exodus 1:8; and the first was to set taskmasters over them, and afflict them with hard bondage, but this succeeded not, Exodus 1:11; for the more they were afflicted the more they multiplied and grew; another decree was, to order the midwives to kill the male children of the Israelites, and save alive the females, Exodus 1:15; but the midwives, fearing God, obeyed not the order, and the people still multiplied, Exodus 1:17; and then a third project was formed, to cast every son born to the Israelites into the river, and drown them, Exodus 1:22; but notwithstanding this they were preserved, as Moses, Exodus 2:10, and doubtless many others; the people increased so, that they went out of Egypt six hundred thousand men, Exodus 12:37; this was a recent thing, it may be in the times of Eliphaz, and which he might easily call to mind: and he might also have respect to a more remote case, that of the builders of Babel, who devised a scheme to build a tower, whose top should reach to heaven, and secure them from a dispersion of them throughout the earth, Genesis 11:1; when God descended in the display of his power and providence, confounded their language, so that they were obliged to desist from their enterprise, and were scattered throughout the earth, which by their scheme they thought to have prevented: this may be applied to wicked crafty men in common, who devise schemes to commit sin, and gratify their lusts, to get for themselves riches and honour, and to do mischief to others, which God in his providence breaks, frustrates, and makes of none effect; and to false teachers, that walk in craftiness, lie in wait to deceive, and make use of cunningly devised fables, coin new doctrines, invent new forms of worship, and appoint new ordinances, and contrive different ways and methods of salvation; all which is foolishness with God, and to such persons Job 5:13 is applied by the Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 3:19: and this may likewise respect wicked princes and potentates, with their counsellors and wise politicians, who in former, as well as in later times, have formed designs against their neighbours, and to the hurt of the interest of true religion particularly; but have been baffled and confounded by Divine Providence, of which, as there were many instances in Israel of old, so in our British Isles of late:
so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise; what their heads have contrived, what they have resolved and determined upon, and what they have began to effect, but could not go on with; or, "bring it soundly to pass", as Mr. Broughton renders it; that is, could not complete it, or bring it to perfection; and indeed not able to do "any thing" n, as some translate the word, not anything of what they devised and contrived: it signifies "that which is", which has a being and substance, and solidity in it o, but nothing of this kind could be done; it is sometimes rendered "wisdom", and "sound wisdom", Proverbs 2:7; and so it is here by some p, and may signify, that though their counsels were deeply laid, and wisely formed, according to the best rules of wisdom and prudence, they yet are not able to bring them to pass; which shows the infinitely superior wisdom of God, and his overruling providence, and which therefore must be a great encouragement to seek unto him, and leave every cause and case with him.
m Aben Ezra, Jarchi, R. Simeon Bar Tzemach. n תשיה "quicquam", Pagninus, Vatablus, Drusius, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "quicquam rei", Cocceius, Michaelis so Kimchi in Sepher Shorash, rad. יש. o "Consistentiam", Montanus; "nihil solidi", Tigurine version. p "Sapientiam", Schmidt; so Aben Ezra & Syr. ver. "astu", Codurcus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - He foils them in their schemes, or makes their plans vain. This too was the result of close observation on the part of Eliphaz. He had seen instances where the plans of crafty, designing, and artful people had been defeated, and where the straightforward had been prospered and honored. Such cases led him to believe that God was the friend of virtue, and was worthy of entire confidence.
So that their hands - So that they. The hands are the instruments by which we accomplish our plans.
Their enterprise - Margin, Or, “anything.” Hebrew תשׁיה tûshı̂yâh. This word properly means uprightness from ישׁע yâsha‛; then help, deliverance, Job 6:13; then purpose, undertaking, enterprise, that is, what one wishes to set up or establish. Gesenius. This is its meaning here. Vulgate, “Their hands cannot finish (implere) what they had begun.” Septuagint, “Their hands cannot perform that which is true” - ὰληθές alēthes. The Chaldee Paraphrase refers this to the defeat of the purposes of the Egyptians: “Who made vain the thoughts of the Egyptians, who acted wisely (or cunningly - דחכימו) that they might do evil to Israel, but their hands did not perform the work of their wisdom Job 5:13, who took the wise men of Pharaoh in their own wisdom, and the counsel of their perverse astrologers he made to return upon them.” The general sense is, that artful and designing men - people who work in the dark, and who form secret purposes of evil, are disappointed and foiled. Eliphaz probably had seen instances of this, and he now attributes it to God as rendering him worthy of the confidence of people. It is still true. The crafty and the designing are often foiled in such a manner as to show that it is wholly of God. He exposes their designs in this way, and shows that he is the friend of the sincere and the honest; and in doing this, he shows that he is worthy the confidence of his people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 5:12. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty — All these sayings refer to God's particular providence, by which he is ever working for the good, and counterworking the plots of the wicked. And as various as are the contingent, capricious, and malevolent acts of men, so varied are his providential interferences; disappointing the devices, snares, and plots of the crafty, so that their plans being confounded, and their machinery broken in pieces, their hands cannot perform their enterprises.
