Job 5:13

13. The wise Those whose “wisdom is of this world,” as in 1 Corinthians 3:19, a verse in which the apostle quotes this very passage from the Hebrew, rather than the Septuagint. There lurks an insinuation, that Job’s boasted wisdom may prove to be a like counterfeit of the real. “He captures the wise, not when their wisdom has forsaken them, and they make a false step, but at the very point where they make the highest use of it.” Hengstenberg. “This,” says Hitzig, “is the only passage in this book which is cited in the New Testament.”

Froward Crooked or cunning.

The Koran has a similar thought: “God outwits the cunning,” 13:44. Lucretius is still more in point:

“Circumretit enim vis, atque injuria, quemque

Atque unde exorta est, ad eum plerumque revortit.”

“For force and rapine in their craftiest nets

Oft their own sons entangle, and the plague Tenfold recoils.”