Job 5:12

Modern English Version

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

Cross References

Psalm 21:11

For they intended evil against You; they devised a plot which they are not able to perform.

Isaiah 8:10

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

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom or understanding or counsel can stand 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 had come to himself, he said, “Now I certainly know that the Lord has sent His angel and delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”

Nehemiah 4:15

Now when our enemies heard that this had become known to us and that God had brought their counsel to nothing, then we all returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 19:3

The spirit of Egypt shall be discouraged in their midst, and I will destroy their counsel; then they shall seek for the idols and for the charmers and for the mediums and the sorcerers.

Job 15:5

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

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of the boasters and makes fools out of diviners, who turns wise men backward and makes their knowledge foolish,

Jeremiah 8:8

How do 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

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

Genesis 31:22

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

1 Samuel 23:13

So David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and left Keilah. And they went wherever they could go. Now it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah. So he halted the expedition.

2 Samuel 11:9

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

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all of the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had decided to undermine the prudent advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring calamity to Absalom.

2 Kings 6:9

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

Nehemiah 4:9

Nevertheless we prayed to our God, and, because of them, we set up a watch for them day and night.

Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the unfaithful.

Jeremiah 49:7

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