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Job 5:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

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

Job 5:13

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11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

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

14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

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Job 5:1

"Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?"

Job 5:2

"For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one."

Job 5:3

"I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation."

Job 5:4

"His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them."

Job 5:5

"Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance."

Job 5:6

"Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;"

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