“What do these words mean? Eliphaz insults Job, who should be a crafty man. He has a desire for justice, without doing anything for which he boasts with real justice. However, God does not stand still without penetrating such schemes, and "the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end."”
Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON JOB 8.5.12-13
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13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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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.
— Job 5:13 —
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.