New Living Translation
Job 5:12
12He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed.
Job 5:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- New International Version (NIV)He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.
Context of Job 5:12
10He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields. 11He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer. He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed. 13He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted. 14They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:12 word by word
מֵ֭פֵר מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת עֲרוּמִ֑ים וְֽלֹא־תַעֲשֶׂ֥ינָה יְ֝דֵיהֶ֗ם תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 5:12
- Job 12:16Yes, strength and wisdom are his; deceivers and deceived are both in his power.
- Nehemiah 4:15When our enemies heard that we knew of their plans and that God had frustrated them, we all returned to our work on the wall.
- Psalms 33:10The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations and thwarts all their schemes.
- Psalms 37:17For the strength of the wicked will be shattered, but the Lord takes care of the godly.
- Proverbs 21:30No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the Lord.
- Isaiah 8:10Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless. Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed. For God is with us!”
- Isaiah 19:3The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will confuse their plans. They will plead with their idols for wisdom and call on spirits, mediums, and those who consult the spirits of the dead.
- Psalms 21:11Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.
- Isaiah 37:36That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.
- Acts 12:11Peter finally came to his senses. “It’s really true!” he said. “The Lord has sent his angel and saved me from Herod and from what the Jewish leaders had planned to do to me!”
- Acts 23:12The next morning a group of Jews got together and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Commentaries on Job 5:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - All these sayings refer to God's particular providence, by which he is ever working for the good, and counterworking the plots of the wicked. And as various as are the contingent, capricious, and malevolent acts of men, so varied are his providential interferences; disappointing the devices, snares, and plots of the crafty, so that their plans being confounded, and their machinery broken in pieces, their hands…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - He foils them in their schemes, or makes their plans vain. This too was the result of close observation on the part of Eliphaz. He had seen instances where the plans of crafty, designing, and artful people had been defeated, and where the straightforward had been prospered and honored. Such cases led him to believe that God was the friend of virtue, and was worthy of entire confidence. So that their hands - So…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-16Eliphaz praised God as the creator and and the one who sustains the universe who performs wonders (5:9–10). He also praised God as the righteous judge who humbles the powerful and honors poor people (5:11–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. enterprise--literally, "realization." The Hebrew combines in the one word the two ideas, wisdom and happiness, "enduring existence" being the etymological and philosophical root of the combined notion [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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