Job 5:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

2 Samuel 11:9

But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

2 Samuel 17:14

And 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, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Kings 6:9

And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are coming down.

Nehemiah 4:15

And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

Nehemiah 4:9

But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

Job 15:5

For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Psalm 21:11

For they intended evil against thee: They imagined a device, which they are not able to perform.

Psalm 37:17

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: But the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against the LORD.

Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the LORD preserve him that hath knowledge, But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.

Isaiah 19:3

And the spirit of Egypt shall be made void in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 44:25

that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish:

Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Jeremiah 49:7

Of Edom. Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 8:8

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

Obadiah 1:8

Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

Acts 12:11

And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a truth, that the Lord hath sent forth his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

1 Samuel 23:13

Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.