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


In Context

9 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

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

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

14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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