Job 12:13–25

Job Speaks of God’s Strength

¹³“With Him are ^awisdom and ^bmight;

To Him belong counsel and ^cdiscernment.

¹⁴“Behold, He ^apulls down, and it cannot be rebuilt;

He ^bcloses a man in, and it cannot be opened.

¹⁵“Behold, He ^arestrains the waters, and they dry up;

And He ^bsends them out, and they overturn the earth.

¹⁶“With Him are strength and sound wisdom;

The ^amisled and the misleader belong to Him.

¹⁷“He makes ^acounselors walk ¹barefoot

And makes fools of ^bjudges.

¹⁸“He ^aopens the ¹bond of kings

And binds their loins with a belt.

¹⁹“He makes priests walk ¹barefoot

And subverts ^athe enduring ones.

²⁰“He removes speech from the faithful

And ^atakes away the discerning taste of the elders.

²¹“He ^apours contempt on nobles

And ^bloosens the belt of the strong.

²²“He ^areveals mysteries from the darkness

And brings out the shadows of death into light.

²³“He ^amakes the nations great, then makes them perish;

He ¹enlarges the nations, then leads them away.

²⁴“He ^aremoves the heart of wisdom from the heads of the earth’s people

And makes them wander in a pathless ¹waste.

²⁵“They ^agrope in darkness with no light,

And He makes them ^bwander about like a drunken man.