Job 12:13–25

¹³With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

¹⁴If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

¹⁵If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.

¹⁶With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived.

¹⁷He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility.

¹⁸He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.

¹⁹He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.

²⁰He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.

²¹He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.

²²He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.

²³He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown.

²⁴He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.

²⁵They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.