12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth.
13. He catches the [so-called] wise in their own trickiness, and the counsel of the schemers is brought to a quick end. [I Cor. 3:19, 20.]
14. In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
15. But [God] saves [the fatherless] from the sword of their mouth, and the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16. So the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts her mouth.