12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. …
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-16)Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair, here begins to encourage him, and puts him in a way to make himself easy. Now he very much changes his voice (Gal. 4:20), and speaks in the accents of kindness, as if he would atone for the hard words h…
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