Bible verse
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Job 5:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 5.
8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
9 the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
11 He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
12 He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
13 He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
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.
ERV
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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