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


In Context

10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

11 To set on high those that are low: that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.

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

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

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

15 But he saveth 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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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