Job 5:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth. American Standard Version (1901) He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. Common English Bible who frustrates the schemes of the clever so that their hands achieve no success, Catholic Public Domain Version He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: |
But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, ‘The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.’
But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: ‘Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.’
When our enemies heard that we knew their scheme and that God had frustrated it, every one of us returned to his own work on the wall.
So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.
Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.
No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel will prevail against the Lord.
The Lord’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous.
Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will enquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists.
Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
who destroys the omens of the false prophets and makes fools of diviners; who confounds the wise and makes their knowledge foolishness;
Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us. ,
About Edom, this is what the Lord of Armies says: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom rotted away?
‘How can you claim, “We are wise; the law of the Lord is with us”? In fact, the lying pen of scribes has produced falsehood.
In that day – this is the Lord’s declaration – will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom and those who understand from the hill country of Esau?
When Peter came to himself, he said, ‘Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected.’
So David and his men, numbering about six hundred, left Keilah at once and moved from place to place. When it was reported to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he called off the expedition.