Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.In other versions
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
ASV
He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
BBE
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
DBY
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
WEB
Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
YLT
He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is carried headlong.
ENG
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
WBT
He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
BSB
In context
11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.