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Job 5:12

โ€œHe frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.โ€

Verse in context โ€” Job 5

10

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

11

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

12

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

14

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

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