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11 aHe sets on high those who are lowly,
And those who mourn are lifted to safety. 
12 aHe frustrates the devices of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot carry out their plans. 
13 He catches the awise in their own craftiness,
And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them. 
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
And grope at noontime as in the night.
15 But aHe saves the needy from the sword,
From the mouth of the mighty,
And from their hand. 
16 aSo the poor have hope,
And injustice shuts her mouth. 
17 “Behold,a happy is the man whom God corrects;
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness - So counterworks them as to cause their feet to be taken in their own snares, and their evil dealings to fall on their own pate. Such frequent proofs has God given of his especial interference in behalf of the innocent, who have been the objects of the plots and evil designs of the wicked, by turning those evil devices against their framers, that he who digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it himself has become a universal adage, and has passed, either in so many words or in sense, into all the languages of all the people of the earth. Lucretius expresses it strongly:

Circumretit enim vis atque injuria quemque,

Atque, unde exorta est, AD eum plerumque revortit .

Lucret. lib. v., ver. 1151.

"For force and wrong entangle the man that uses them;

And, for the most part, recoil on the head of the contriver."




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Job 5:13:

1 Corinthians 3:19

 

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