Job 12:12-25 (New International Version)
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Is not wisdom found among the aged?1 Does not long life bring understanding?2
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"To God belong wisdom3 and power;4 counsel and understanding are his.5
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What he tears down6 cannot be rebuilt;7 the man he imprisons cannot be released.8
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If he holds back the waters,9 there is drought;10 if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.11
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To him belong strength and victory;12 both deceived and deceiver are his.13
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He leads counselors away stripped14 and makes fools of judges.15
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He takes off the shackles16 put on by kings and ties a loinclotha around their waist.17
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He leads priests away stripped18 and overthrows men long established.19
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He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.20
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He pours contempt on nobles21 and disarms the mighty.22
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He reveals the deep things of darkness23 and brings deep shadows24 into the light.25
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He makes nations great, and destroys them;26 he enlarges nations,27 and disperses them.28
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He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason;29 he sends them wandering through a trackless waste.30
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They grope in darkness with no light;31 he makes them stagger like drunkards.32
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