Job 5:13 KJV
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 5:13, King James Version
In context
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.
Cross-references
- Psalms 9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
- Psalms 7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- Luke 1:51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.