Job 5:12
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.”
מַחֲשָׁבָה
Thoughts, plans, purposes. Machashabah. The deliberate intentions of God. I know the plans I have for you. These are not random events but purposes designed with love.
עָשָׂה
they will bring about
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עָשָׂה
To do, to make, to accomplish. Asah. God looked at everything He had made and called it very good. Your life is also His asah. He is still working on it.
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עָרוּם
crafty people
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עָרוּם
Crafty, shrewd, subtle. Arum. The serpent was more crafty than any animal. Evil presents itself as wisdom. Test everything against the word of God.
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תּוּשִׁיָּה
success
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תּוּשִׁיָּה
support or (by implication) ability, i.e. (direct) help, (in purpose) an undertaking, (intellectual) understanding
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יָד
hands/ their
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יָד
Hand. Yad. The hand as the symbol of power and action. When God's hand rests on a life nothing is impossible.
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פָּרַר
who frustrates
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פָּרַר
to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate
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