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Job, Chapter 12, verses 13-25

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“With Him are wisdom and might;
To Him belong counsel and understanding.

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“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He^himprisons a man, andⁱthere can be no release.

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“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;
And He sends them out, and they^jinundate the earth.

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

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

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“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.

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

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

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

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“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.

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


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