Key Verse Spotlight
Job 5:13 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.”
Job 5:13
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {meet...: or, run into}
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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