Job, Chapter 12, verses 16-25

¹⁶

“With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.

¹⁷

“He makes counselors walk^kbarefoot
And makes fools of judges.

¹⁸

“He loosens the^lbond of kings
And binds their loins with a girdle.

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“He makes priests walk^mbarefoot
And overthrows the secure ones.

²⁰

“He deprives the trusted ones of speech
And takes away the discernment of the elders.

²¹

“He pours contempt on nobles
And loosens the belt of the strong.

²²

“He reveals mysteries from the darkness
And brings the deep darkness into light.

²³

“He makes the nations great, then destroys them;
Heⁿenlarges the nations, then leads them away.

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“He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

²⁵

“They grope in darkness with no light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.


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