Job 5:12

In 11 translations

BSB

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

KJV

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.their enterprise: or, any thing

WEB

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

ASV

He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

LSV

Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.

YLT

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

DBY

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.

DRC

Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

GNV

He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

JPS

He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.

LXXE

frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

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WLC

מֵ֭פֵר מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת עֲרוּמִ֑ים וְֽלֹא־תַעֲשֶׂ֥ינָה יְ֝דֵיהֶ֗ם תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃

LXX-Br

διαλλάσσοντα βουλὰς πανούργων, καὶ οὐ μὴ ποιήσουσιν αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῶν ἀληθές·

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• Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
• Psalms 33:10–11The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
• Isaiah 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
• Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
• Psalms 37:17For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
• Acts 12:11Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
• Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
• Nehemiah 4:15When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
• Job 12:16–17True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His. He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
• Acts 23:12–22When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. More than forty of them were involved in this plot. They went to the chief priests and…
• Isaiah 19:3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.

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