Job 12:18
He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
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- Ps 116:16 : 16 O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.
- Dan 2:21 : 21 By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:
- Jer 52:31-34 : 31 And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison. 32 And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 33 And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life. 34 And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.
- 2 Chr 33:11-14 : 11 So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon. 12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers, 13 And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God. 14 After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.
- Rev 19:16 : 16 And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
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19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;
20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;
21 He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;
22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
23 Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.
24 He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
- Job 12:14-174 verses79%
14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
16 With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;
17 He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;
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8 To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;
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8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
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5 And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.
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11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
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3 Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.
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22 To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him.
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19 Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.
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1 This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.
2 So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.
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23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.
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12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
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20 The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.
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13 And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.
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40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
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4 The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
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12 He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
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21 By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:
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15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.
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24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
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15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.
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26 A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
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21 And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.
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6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
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4 The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
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39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.
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32 God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.
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11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.
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18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
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10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
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10 It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.
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7 Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
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14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
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19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
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22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.
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17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
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6 Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.
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8 For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:
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13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.