Job 5:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

New Living Translation
He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed.

English Standard Version
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

Berean Study Bible
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

New American Standard Bible
“He frustrates the schemes of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.

NASB 1995
"He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.

NASB 1977
“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.

Amplified Bible
“He frustrates the devices and schemes of the crafty, So that their hands cannot attain success or achieve anything of [lasting] worth.

Christian Standard Bible
He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success.

Contemporary English Version
God swiftly traps the wicked

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully.

International Standard Version
He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.

NET Bible
He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

New King James Version
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.

King James 2000 Bible
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

New Heart English Bible
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

World English Bible
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

American King James Version
He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

American Standard Version
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

A Faithful Version
He frustrates the devising of the crafty, so that their hands cannot achieve prosperity.

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

English Revised Version
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Webster's Bible Translation
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
He destroyeth the deuices of the subtyll, so that their handes are not able to perfourme that which they do enterprise.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Which destroyeth the deuyces of the sotyll, so that they are not able to perfourme the thynges that they take in hode:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Making void thoughts of the cunning, "" And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Young's Literal Translation
Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Smith's Literal Translation
Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Catholic Public Domain Version
He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He brings the ideas of the wise to nothing that their hands will not perform a scheme

Lamsa Bible
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot wisely perform their enterprise.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can perform nothing substantial.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
















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