Job 12:20

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He silences the speech of the trustworthy and takes away the discernment of the elders.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:9 : 9 It is not merely the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For you have closed their hearts to understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.
  • Job 39:17 : 17 For God has deprived her of wisdom and has not given her understanding.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 Truthful speech endures forever, but a lying tongue lasts only for a moment.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are His delight.
  • Isa 3:1-3 : 1 See now, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, is removing from Jerusalem and Judah support and supply, both bread and water. 2 The mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder. 3 The captain of fifty and the honored man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

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    12 "Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days."

    13 "With Him are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His."

    14 "What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be set free."

    15 "If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth."

    16 "With Him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His."

    17 "He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges."

    18 "He loosens the bonds of kings and binds their waists with a belt."

    19 "He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty."

  • Job 12:21-25
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    83%

    21 He pours out contempt on nobles and loosens the belts of the strong.

    22 He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

    23 He makes nations great and then destroys them; He enlarges nations and guides them away.

    24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

    25 They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

  • Job 5:12-13
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    72%

    12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands achieve no success.

    13 He traps the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are quickly foiled.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40 He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • Job 9:12
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    12 If He snatches away, who can stop Him? Who can say to Him, 'What are You doing?

  • Prov 22:12
    72%

    12 The eyes of the LORD watch over knowledge, but He overturns the words of the treacherous.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise person ascends the city of warriors and brings down the fortress in which they trust.

  • Job 14:19-20
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    71%

    19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil of the earth, so you destroy the hope of man.

    20 You overpower him forever, and he departs; you change his face and send him away.

  • Job 34:20
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    20 In a moment, they die; at midnight, people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are removed without human intervention.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24 He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets others in their place.

    25 Because He knows their deeds, He overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

  • Hab 1:11
    71%

    11 Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on; but they are guilty—this strength of theirs is their god.

  • Dan 2:21
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    21 He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.

  • Job 27:20
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    20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • Job 9:5
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    5 He removes mountains without their knowing it, and overturns them in His anger.

  • Job 18:14
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    14 He is uprooted from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

  • Job 24:2
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    2 People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

  • Job 17:4
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    4 For you have closed their hearts to understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them.

  • Isa 40:23
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    23 He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

  • Job 24:22
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    22 Yet God drags away the mighty with His power; though they rise up, they do not trust in their own lives.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30 The one who winks with his eyes is plotting perverse things, and the one who purses his lips is bent on evil.

  • Job 30:2
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    2 Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • Job 15:4
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    4 But you are tearing down reverence and diminishing devotion to God.

  • 1 Kgs 12:8
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    8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders who had counseled him and instead consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

  • Amos 5:9
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    9 He flashes destruction upon the mighty and brings ruin upon the fortified city.

  • Job 33:17
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    17 To turn a man from wrongdoing and to conceal pride from him.

  • Job 4:21
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    21 Isn't their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, and not with wisdom.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12 The righteous one considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked down to ruin.

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    69%

    9 It is not merely the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

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    69%

    8 Will I not, on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men from Edom and understanding from the mountain of Esau?

  • Prov 20:26
    69%

    26 A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them.

  • Job 11:10
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    10 If He passes by, imprisons, or calls an assembly, who can turn Him back?

  • Job 18:7
    69%

    7 His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the righteous!

  • Isa 3:2
    69%

    2 The mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder.

  • Isa 10:2
    69%

    2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Job 37:12
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    12 They turn and shift by His guidance, to carry out all that He commands across the surface of the earth.

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