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12 He keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plans
    so that they cannot do anything successfully.
13 He catches the wise with their own tricks.
    The plans of schemers prove to be hasty.
14 In the daytime they meet darkness
    and grope in the sunlight as if it were night.

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12 He thwarts the plans(A) of the crafty,
    so that their hands achieve no success.(B)
13 He catches the wise(C) in their craftiness,(D)
    and the schemes of the wily are swept away.(E)
14 Darkness(F) comes upon them in the daytime;
    at noon they grope as in the night.(G)

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