Catholic Public Domain Version
"He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun. "
— Job 5:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.”
“He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ”
“He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.”
“He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!”
“Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:”
“Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.”
“He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.”
He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.
He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.
He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.
He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.
He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.
They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.
Thereafter, he will act to save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.