Job 12:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

He loosens the bonds of kings, and girds their loins with a belt.

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  • Ps 116:16 : 16 O LORD, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid: You have loosed my bonds.
  • Dan 2:21 : 21 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings and sets up kings: he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who know understanding.
  • Jer 52:31-34 : 31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison, 32 And spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33 And changed his prison garments: and he regularly ate bread before him all the days of his life. 34 And for his diet, there was a regular portion given to him by the king of Babylon, daily a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
  • 2 Chr 33:11-14 : 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. 14 After this, he built a wall outside the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance of the Fish Gate, and encircled Ophel, raising it to a great height, and put commanders of war in all the fortified cities of Judah.
  • Rev 19:16 : 16 And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

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  • Job 12:19-25
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    19 He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

    20 He removes the speech of the trusted, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

    21 He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

    22 He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

    23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: He enlarges the nations, and shrinks them again.

    24 He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

    25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Job 12:14-17
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    14 Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt: He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

    15 Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up: also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

    16 With Him are strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are His.

    17 He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

  • 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

  • 8 And if they are bound in chains, and held in cords of affliction;

  • 5 And righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

  • 11 Because He has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

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    3 Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.

  • 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his elders wisdom.

  • 19 Let it be to him as the garment that covers him, and as a belt with which he is girded continually.

  • Jer 13:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Thus says the LORD to me, Go and get yourself a linen belt, and put it around your waist, and do not put it in water.

    2 So I got a belt according to the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist.

  • 23 Who brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • 12 And it turns around by his counsel, so that they may do whatever he commands them on the face of the world in the earth.

  • 20 The king sent and released him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

  • 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.

  • 40 He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

  • 4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

  • 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes; He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

  • 21 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings and sets up kings: he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who know understanding.

  • 15 Girded with sashes upon their loins, excellently attired upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

  • 24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their place.

  • Job 36:15-16
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    15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

    16 Even so would he have brought you out of distress into a broad place, where there is no tightness; and that which should be set on your table would be full of abundance.

  • 26 A wise king scatters the wicked and brings the wheel over them.

  • 21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will commit your authority into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

  • 6 Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

  • 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power; and who can say to him, 'What are you doing?'

  • 39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

  • 32 It is God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.

  • 11 He binds the floods from overflowing; and the hidden thing he brings forth to light.

  • 18 By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

  • 10 They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • 10 It is he that gives salvation to kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.

  • 7 Who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners:

  • 14 With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;

  • 19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your position shall he pull you down.

  • 22 He draws also the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no man is sure of life.

  • 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?

  • 6 Then the king's face changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened, and his knees knocked against each other.

  • 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more enslave him.

  • 13 His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.