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Job 5:13

World English Bible

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

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Job 5:13 in other translations

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

Job 5:13 · American Standard Version

Job 5:13 in context

  1. 11so that he sets up on high those who are low,
    those who mourn are exalted to safety.
  2. 12He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
    So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
  3. 13He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
    the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  4. 14They meet with darkness in the day time,
    and grope at noonday as in the night.
  5. 15But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
    even the needy from the hand of the mighty.