12He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.


In Context

9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:

10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields:

11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the fraudulent is carried headlong.

14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Job 5:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:12He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:12He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:12He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.