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


In Context

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.

15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:13Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,