Job 12:13–25

¹³With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding. ¹⁴Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened. ¹⁵Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land. ¹⁶With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver. ¹⁷Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish. ¹⁸The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins. ¹⁹Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth. ²⁰Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away. ²¹Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble. ²²Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade. ²³Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them. ²⁴Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy—no way! ²⁵They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

Chapter 13