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Job 5

Job 5:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Het disappointeth
parar (Hebrew #6565)
to break up (usually figuratively, i.e. to violate, frustrate
KJV usage: X any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, X clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, X utterly, make void.
Pronounce: paw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
the devices
machashabah (Hebrew #4284)
from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Pronounce: makh-ash-aw-baw'
Origin: or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}
of the crafty
`aruwm (Hebrew #6175)
cunning (usually in a bad sense)
KJV usage: crafty, prudent, subtil.
Pronounce: aw-room'
Origin: passive participle of 6191
, so that their hands
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
cannot perform
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
βtheir enterprise
tuwshiyah (Hebrew #8454)
from an unused root probably meaning to substantiate; support or (by implication) ability, i.e. (direct) help, (in purpose) an undertaking, (intellectual) understanding
KJV usage: enterprise, that which (thing as it) is, substance, (sound) wisdom, working.
Pronounce: too-shee-yaw'
Origin: or tushiyah { too-shee-yaw'}
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Neh. 4:15• 15And it came to pass that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had defeated their counsel, we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his work. (Neh. 4:15)
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or, anything

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disappointeth.
Job 12:16‑17• 16With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
 17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; (Job 12:16‑17)
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Neh. 4:15• 15And it came to pass that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had defeated their counsel, we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his work. (Neh. 4:15)
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Psa. 33:10‑11• 10Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect.
 11The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation. (Psa. 33:10‑11)
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Psa. 37:17• 17for the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Jehovah upholdeth the righteous. (Psa. 37:17)
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Prov. 21:30• 30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against Jehovah. (Prov. 21:30)
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Isa. 8:10• 10Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for *God is with us. (Isa. 8:10)
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Isa. 19:3• 3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols and unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers. (Isa. 19:3)
their hands.
Psa. 21:11• 11For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute. (Psa. 21:11)
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Isa. 37:36• 36And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. (Isa. 37:36)
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Acts 12:11• 11And Peter, being come to himself, said, Now I know certainly that the Lord has sent forth his angel and has taken me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews. (Acts 12:11)
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Acts 23:12‑22• 12And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
 13And they were more than forty who had joined together in this oath;
 14and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.
 15Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.
 16But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported it to Paul.
 17And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to him.
 18He therefore, having taken him with him, led him to the chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to him and asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say to thee.
 19And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to report to me?
 20And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow into the council, as about to inquire something more precise concerning him.
 21Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.
 22The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding him, Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me. (Acts 23:12‑22)
their enterprise.
or, anything.
• {v.12-16} There may, or may not, be insinuations of craftiness in Job in this part; probably not. Eliphaz is formulating his theory, “Be good, and you will be happy in the long run.” (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.