King James Version (KJV)
Job 5:13
“He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.”
Verse in context — Job 5
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To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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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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