Job 5:13 · KJV
“He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.”
— Job 5:13
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {meet...: or, run into}
Job 5 — Context
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}
13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {meet...: or, run into}
15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15-16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians 1:19-20
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Luke 1:51
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Psalms 7:15-16
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}
Esther 9:25
But when {Esther} came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. {when...: Heb. when she came}
Psalms 35:7-8
For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which} without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalms 18:26
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. {shew thyself froward: or, wrestle}