13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. …
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. …
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. …
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. …
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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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