11 translations · Hebrew
Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Job 5:12 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
- KJV King James Version
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
- ASV American Standard Version
- He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- He frustrates the plans of the cunning so that they are unsuccessful.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
- DBY Darby Translation
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֵ֭פֵר | mê·p̄êr | He thwarts | H6565 פָּרַר to break |
| מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת | maḥ·šə·ḇō·wṯ | the schemes | H4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה plot |
| עֲרוּמִ֑ים | ‘ă·rū·mîm | of the crafty | H6175 עָרוּם prudent |
| וְֽלֹא־ | wə·lō- | no | H3808 לֹא not |
| תַעֲשֶׂ֥ינָה | ṯa·‘ă·śe·nāh | find | H6213 עָשָׂה to make: do |
| יְ֝דֵיהֶ֗ם | yə·ḏê·hem | so that their hands | H3027 יָד hand |
| תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃ | tū·šî·yāh | success | H8454 תּוּשִׁיָּה wisdom |
Related verses
- Psalm 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
- Psalm 33:10–11
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us.”
- Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
- Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
- Isaiah 37:36
Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Acts 12:11
When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
- Nehemiah 4:15
When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.
- Job 12:16–17
With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
- Acts 23:12–22
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. …
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
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 plans 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.
Read all of Job 5 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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