Job 5:12

Acts 12:11; Acts 23:12-22; Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 37:36; Isaiah 8:10; Job 12:16; Job 12:17; Nehemiah 4:15; Proverbs 21:30; Psalms 21:11; Psalms 33:10; Psalms 33:11; Psalms 37:17

Related Commentaries of Job 5:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - He foils them in their schemes, or makes their plans vain. This too was the result of close observat...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Eliphaz advises Job to accept the Divine discipline so that God may again show Himself gracious. As for me, instead of being impatient like a fool, I...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

enterprise . something stable. See note on "sound wisdom". Proverbs 2:7 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - All t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. Enterprise - literally, realization. The Hebr...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Eliphaz (concluded) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools nev...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. — Or, so that their hands can do-nothing that is sound or of worth, can accomplish nothing ef...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1-21 ; Job 5:1-27 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was wri...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Benefits of Chastisement Job 5:1-27 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were th...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fie...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty ,.... Or, "it disappointeth"; that is, the rain, as some Jewish commentators m interpret it, and the whol...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. Ver. 12. He disappointeth the devices of the cr...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty On the contrary, he defeats the craftiest designs of evil and subtle men to exalt themselves. They may p...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the s...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of the crafty; such as are cunning to work evil, and to cover it with fair pretences, as hypocrites use to do, and as Job's friends charged him wit...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED I. Application of the Vision ( Job 5:1 ). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 5:1 . To which of the saints wilt thou turn? Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just h...
The Biblical Illustrator

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. The disappointment of the crafty The word “crafty” may mean “prudent,” but usually it denotes such...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 5:1-18 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Answering A Possible Objection On Job's Part
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, bringing all their schemes to naught, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise, cannot reali...

¹² He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Related Commentaries of Job 5:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 5:12