Job 12:13–25

^13l“With God³ are wisdom and might;

he has counsel and understanding.

¹⁴If he tears down, none can rebuild;

if he ^mshuts a man in, none can open.

¹⁵If he ⁿwithholds the waters, they dry up;

if he ^osends them out, they overwhelm the land.

¹⁶With him are strength and ^psound wisdom;

the deceived and the deceiver are his.

¹⁷He leads ^qcounselors away stripped,

and ^rjudges he makes fools.

¹⁸He ^slooses the bonds of kings

and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

¹⁹He leads priests away stripped

and overthrows the mighty.

²⁰He deprives of speech those who are trusted

^tand takes away the discernment of the elders.

²¹He ^upours contempt on princes

and loosens the belt of the strong.

²²He ^vuncovers the deeps out of darkness

and brings ^wdeep darkness to light.

²³He ^xmakes nations great, and he destroys them;

he enlarges nations, and ^yleads them away.

²⁴He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth

and ^zmakes them wander in a trackless waste.

²⁵They ^agrope in the dark without light,

and he makes them ^bstagger like a drunken man.