Devine Scripture

Job 5:13

Job chapter 5 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

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

v.13This passage

v.14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 35:7

    For without cause have they hid for me their netina pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:19

    For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:

  • 2 Samuel 15:34

    but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s servant in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

  • 1 Corinthians 1:19

    For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.

  • Psalms 7:15

    He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

  • Psalms 18:26

    With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.