Job 5:13

Catholic Public Domain Version

He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Then it was reported to David that Ahithophel also had joined in swearing with Absalom. And David said, " O Lord, I beg you, to uncover the foolishness of the counsel of Ahithophel."

2 Samuel 15:34

But if you return to the city, and you say to Absalom, 'I am your servant, O king; just as I have been the servant of your father, so too will I be your servant,' you will destroy the counsel of Ahithophel

2 Samuel 17:23

Then Ahithophel, seeing that his counsel had not been done, saddled his donkey, and he rose up and went away to his own house and to his own city. And putting his house in order, he killed himself by hanging. And he was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

Esther 7:10

"Remember," he said, "the days of your lowliness, how you were nurtured as if in my hand, because Haman, who is second after the king, has spoken against us to death.

Esther 9:25

And so Haman went out that day joyful and cheerful. And when he saw that Mordecai was sitting in front of the gate of the palace, and that he alone did not get up for him, but did not so much as move from the place where he sat, he was very indignant.

Job 15:5

For your iniquity has mislead your mouth, and you imitate the tongue of blasphemers.

Job 37:24

Therefore, men will fear him, and all those who seem to themselves to be wise, will not dare to contemplate him.

Psalm 9:17

The Lord will be recognized when making judgments. The sinner has been caught in the works of his own hands.

Proverbs 3:32

For everyone who ridicules is an abomination to the Lord, and his communication is for the simple.

Isaiah 19:3

And the spirit of Egypt will be ruptured to its very core. And I will cast down their plan violently. And they will seek answers from their false images, and their diviners, and those led by demons, and their seers.

Isaiah 44:25

I make the signs of the diviners useless, and I turn the seers to madness. I turn the wise backwards, and make their knowledge into foolishness.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they said: "Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words."

Jeremiah 49:7

Against Idumea. Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Counsel has perished from the sons. Their wisdom has become useless.

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say: 'We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?' Truly, the lying pen of the scribes has wrought falsehood.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men have been confounded; they were terrified and captured. For they cast aside the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.

Jeremiah 9:22

"Speak: Thus says the Lord: And the corpses of men will fall like manure over the face of the countryside, and like hay behind the back of the reaper, and there will be no one to gather it."

Numbers 22:25

And the donkey, seeing this, drew herself close to the wall and scraped the foot of the rider. So he beat her again.

Luke 1:51

He has accomplished powerful deeds with his arm. He has scattered the arrogant in the intentions of their heart.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. And so it has been written: "I will catch the wise in their own astuteness."