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Job 5:13 — King James Version← Study notes

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.


Job 5:13Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 5:136 words
HebrewMeaning
לֹכֵ֣דlōkēd
who catchesverbH3920
at all · be frozen · be holden · stick together ···
חֲכָמִ֣יםḥăkāmiym
wise peopleadjH2450
subtil · wise · man)
בְּ/עָרְמָ֑/םbəʿārəmām
craftinesspronH6193
וַ/עֲצַ֖תwaʿăṣat
and the counsel ofconjH6098
advisement · counsel) · purpose
נִפְתָּלִ֣יםnipətāliym
tortuous peopleverbH6617
shew self unsavoury · wrestle
נִמְהָֽרָהniməhārāh
it is hastyverbH4116
fearful · (cause to make · in · make) haste(-n ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. For oftentimes, some that are puffed up with human wisdom, when they see that the decrees of God are contrary to their inclinations, set themselves to oppose them with crafty manoeuvres, and that they may bend the power of the dispensation of the Most High to meet their own wishes, they busy themselves in cunning contrivances, they devise schemes of excessive refinement. But they…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 6 §27
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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