He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the cunning is quickly ended.
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Hesychius of Jerusalem
AD 433
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.”
