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Read Full Chapter (Job 5) Job 5:13 KJV
"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong."
Job Chapter 5, Verse 13
Job 5:13 in Context (Verses 10–16 KJV)
10
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:*
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.*
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.*
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But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.