Job 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - All these sayings refer to God's particular providence, by which he is ever working for the good, and counterworking the plots of the wicked. And as various as are the contingent, capricious, and malevolent acts of men, so varied are his providential interferences; disappointing the devices, snares, and plots of the crafty, so that their plans being confounded, and their machinery broken in pieces, their hands cannot perform their enterprises.

Job 5:12

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