Job 5:12

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Job 5:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

11 He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

12 He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

13 He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

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Job 12:16

True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.

Nehemiah 4:15

When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.

Psalms 33:10

The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.

Psalms 33:11

The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.

Psalms 37:17

For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Isaiah 8:10

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

Isaiah 19:3

Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.

Psalms 21:11

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Acts 12:11

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

Acts 23:12

When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:13

More than forty of them were involved in this plot.

Acts 23:14

They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.

Acts 23:15

Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”

Acts 23:16

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.

Acts 23:17

Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”

Acts 23:18

So the centurion took him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner sent and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

Acts 23:19

The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside, and asked, “What do you need to tell me?”

Acts 23:20

He answered, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul to the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of acquiring more information about him.

Acts 23:21

Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”

Acts 23:22

So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Do not tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”