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Job 5:13

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

KJV

qui apprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum, et consilium pravorum dissipat.

Vulgate

ὁ καταλαμβάνων σοφοὺς ἐν τῇ φρονήσει, βουλὴν δὲ πολυπλόκων ἐξέστησεν·

LXX

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

ASV

לֹכֵ֣ד חֲכָמִ֣ים בְּ/עָרְמָ֑/ם וַ/עֲצַ֖ת נִפְתָּלִ֣ים נִמְהָֽרָה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הּ
h
verb · 121×
חָכָ֣ם
chkm
noun · 135×
יְמַהֵ֣ר
ymhr
verb · 64×
ם
m
pronoun · 1×
עֲצַ֥ת
'tst
verb · 90×
תִּתַּפָּֽל
ttpl
verb · 5×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Let no man deceive himself; if any man thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool. As he bids one become, as it were, dead unto the world — and this deadness harms not at all, but rather profits, being made a cause of life:— so also he bids him become foolish unto this world, introducing to us hereby the true wisdom. Now he becomes a fool unto the world, who…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:19 — For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
  • 1Cor 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
  • 1Cor 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
  • 1Sam 23:22 — Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
  • 2Sam 15:31 — And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2Sam 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 hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the
  • 2Sam 17:23 — And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and
  • Esth 6:4 — And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
  • Esth 7:10 — So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
  • Esth 9:25 — But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on t
  • Hab 2:13 — Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
  • Isa 29:14 — Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent
  • Jer 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him wit
  • Job 15:5 — For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
  • Job 37:24 — Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
  • Luke 1:51 — He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
  • Num 22:25 — And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
  • Prov 3:32 — For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
  • Ps 7:15 — He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
  • Ps 9:15 — The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
  • Ps 18:26 — With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
  • Ps 35:7 — For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.