Job 5:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

God swiftly traps the wicked in their own evil schemes, and their wisdom fails.

Cross References

Genesis 31:22

Three days later Laban found out that Jacob had gone.

2 Samuel 11:9

But Uriah didn't go home. Instead, he slept outside the entrance to the royal palace, where the king's guards slept.

2 Samuel 17:14

Absalom and the others liked Hushai's plan better than Ahithophel's plan. This was because the LORD had decided to keep Ahithophel's plan from working and to cause trouble for Absalom.

2 Kings 6:9

Each time, Elisha would send this warning to the king of Israel: “Don't go near there. That's where the Syrian troops have set up camp.”

Nehemiah 4:15

Our enemies found out that we knew about their plot against us, but God kept them from doing what they had planned. So we went back to work on the wall.

Nehemiah 4:9

But we kept on praying to our God, and we also stationed guards day and night.

Job 15:5

And your sinful, scheming mind is the source of all you say.

Psalm 21:11

All their plans to harm you will come to nothing.

Psalm 37:17

The wicked will lose all of their power, but the LORD gives strength to everyone who is good.

Proverbs 21:30

No matter how much you know or what plans you make, you can't defeat the LORD.

Proverbs 22:12

The LORD watches over everyone who shows good sense, but he frustrates the plans of deceitful liars.

Isaiah 19:3

“Egypt will be discouraged when I confuse their plans. They will try to get advice from their idols, from the spirits of the dead, and from fortune-tellers.

Isaiah 37:36

The LORD sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand of them all in one night. The next morning, the camp was full of dead bodies.

Isaiah 44:25

I make liars of false prophets and fools of fortune-tellers. I take human wisdom and turn it into nonsense.

Isaiah 8:10

Get together and make plans, but you will fail because God is with us.

Jeremiah 49:7

The LORD All-Powerful says about Edom: Wisdom and common sense have vanished from Teman. I will send disaster to punish you descendants of Esau, so anyone from Dedan had better turn round and run back home.

Jeremiah 8:8

You say, “We are wise because we have the teachings and laws of the LORD.” But I say that your teachers have turned my words into lies!

Obadiah 1:8

Edom, when this happens, I, the LORD, will destroy all your marvellous wisdom.

Acts 12:11

Peter now realized what had happened, and he said, “I am certain that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod and from everything the Jewish leaders planned to do to me.”

1 Samuel 23:13

David and his six hundred men got out of there fast and started moving from place to place. Saul heard that David had left Keilah, and he decided not to go after him.