Job 5:13 KJV — MannaFest

Job 5:13

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

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

DBT

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Psalms 9:15–16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Luke 1:51
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Psalms 7:15–16
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
1 Corinthians 1:19–20
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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That the afflictions which are borne well will end well; and Job particularly, if he would come to a better temper, might assure himself that God had great mercy in store for him,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

There is a supreme power that manages and overrules men who think themselves free and absolute, and fulfils its own purposes in spite of their projects. Observe, First, The froward, that walk contrary to God and the interests of his kingdom, are often very crafty; for they are the seed of the old serpent that was noted for his subtlety.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This is quoted by the apostle ( 1 Cor. iii. 19 ) to show how the learned men of the heathen were befooled by their own vain philosophy. Fifthly, When God infatuates men they are perplexed, and at a loss, even in those things that seem most plain and easy (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Paul (1Co 3:19) quoted this clause with the formula establishing its inspiration, "it is written." He cites the exact Hebrew words, not as he usually does the Septuagint, Greek version (Ps 9:15). Haman was hanged on the gallows he prepared for Mordecai (Es 5:14; 7:10). the wise--that is, "the cunning." is carried headlong--Their scheme is precipitated before it is ripe.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Quoted in 1CO 3:19
'He taketh the wise in their own craftiness' ('it is written')

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