Job 5:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Common English Bible

¹² who frustrates the schemes of the clever so that their hands achieve no success,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Job 5:12 Cross References

Genesis 31:22

On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

2 Samuel 11:9

But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to his house.

2 Samuel 17:14

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring ruin on Absalom.

2 Kings 6:9

But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Take care not to pass this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”

Nehemiah 4:15

When our enemies heard that their plot was known to us and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

Nehemiah 4:9

So we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

Job 15:5

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

Psalm 21:11

If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Psalm 37:17

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

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.

Isaiah 19:3

the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,” when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie?

Obadiah 1:8

On that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise out of Edom and understanding out of Mount Esau.

Acts 12:11

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hands of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”

1 Samuel 23:13

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they wandered wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.