Job 5:12 Parallel Translations
NASB: "He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
ASV: He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
BBE: Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
DBY: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
ERV: He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
JPS: He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.
WBS: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
WEB: He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
YLT: Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Job 5:12 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 33:10 The LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
MHC: 5:6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble. There is nothing in this world we are born to, and can truly call our own, but sin and trouble. Actual transgressions are sparks that fly out of the furnace of original corruption. Such is the frailty of our bodies, and the vanity of all our enjoyments, that our troubles arise thence as the sparks fly upward; so many are they, and so fast does one follow another. Eliphaz reproves Job for not seeking God, instead of quarrelling with him. Is any afflicted? let him pray. It is heart's ease, a salve for every sore. Eliphaz speaks of rain, which we are apt to look upon as a little thing; but if we consider how it is produced, and what is produced by it, we shall see it to be a great work of power and goodness. Too often the great Author of all our comforts, and the manner in which they are conveyed to us, are not noticed, because they are received as things of course. In the ways of Providence, the experiences of some are encouragements to others, to hope the best in the worst of times; for it is the glory of God to send help to the helpless, and hope to the hopeless. And daring sinners are confounded, and forced to acknowledge the justice of God's proceedings.
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