Key Verse Spotlight
Job 5:11 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.”
Job 5:11
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: {unsearchable: Heb. there is no search} {without...: Heb. till there be no number}
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: {fields: Heb. outplaces}
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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