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 5:13 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 5:136 words
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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…
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