Job 5:12

New English Translation

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

Cross References

Genesis 31:22

Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.

2 Samuel 11:9

But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.

2 Kings 6:9

But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”

Nehemiah 4:15

It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.

Nehemiah 4:9

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them both day and night.

Job 15:5

Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.

Psalm 21:11

Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

Psalm 37:17

for evil men will lose their power, but the Lord sustains the godly.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the Lord guard knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless person.

Isaiah 19:3

The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.

Isaiah 37:36

The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers and humiliates the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men and makes their advice seem foolish,

Isaiah 8:10

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

Jeremiah 49:7

The Lord who rules over all spoke about Edom. “Is wisdom no longer to be found in Teman? Can Edom’s counselors not give her any good advice? Has all of their wisdom turned bad?

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say, “We are wise! We have the law of the Lord”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.

Obadiah 1:8

At that time,” the Lord says, “I will destroy the wise sages of Edom! the advisers from Esau’s mountain!

Acts 12:11

When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen.”

1 Samuel 23:13

So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.