Job 12:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:9 : 9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.
  • Job 17:4 : 4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
  • Job 39:17 : 17 That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 True lips are certain for ever, but a false tongue is only for a minute.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.
  • Isa 3:1-3 : 1 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water; 2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years; 3 The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.

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    12 Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

    13 With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

    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;

    18 He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;

    19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

  • Job 12:21-25
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    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 5:12-13
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    12 Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

    13 He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

  • Ps 107:40
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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.

  • Job 9:12
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    12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

  • Prov 22:12
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    12 The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

  • Job 14:19-20
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    19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

    20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • Job 34:20
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    20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

    25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

  • Hab 1:11
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    11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.

  • Dan 2:21
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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:

  • Job 27:20
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    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • Job 9:5
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    5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

  • Job 18:14
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    14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

  • Job 24:2
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    2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

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    4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

  • Isa 40:23
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    23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

  • Job 24:22
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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.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30 He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

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    2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

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    4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

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    8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:

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    9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

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    17 In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

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    21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

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    9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

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    8 Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau?

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    26 A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

  • Job 11:10
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    10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

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    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

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    23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

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    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

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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,