Job 5:12

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Psalm 21:11

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

Proverbs 21:30

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

Psalm 37:17

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

Acts 12:11

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

Nehemiah 4:15

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

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 19:3

and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;

Job 15:5

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

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

Jeremiah 8:8

“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

Obadiah 1:8

Will I not on that day, declares the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?

Genesis 31:22

When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,

1 Samuel 23:13

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.

2 Samuel 11:9

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go 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, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.

2 Kings 6:9

But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”

Nehemiah 4:9

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

Proverbs 22:12

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

Jeremiah 49:7

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