Job 12:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 32:9 : 9 Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged understand judgment.
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
  • Job 12:24 : 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.
  • Job 39:17 : 17 Because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has He imparted to her understanding.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 The lip of truth will be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.
  • Isa 3:1-3 : 1 For indeed, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the support and the staff, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the wise, and the elder, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skilled craftsman, and the eloquent orator.

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    12With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

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

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    18He loosens the bonds of kings, and girds their loins with a belt.

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  • Job 12:21-25
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    21He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

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

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  • Job 5:12-13
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    12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot accomplish their schemes.

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

  • Job 9:12
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    12Behold, He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who will say to Him, What are you doing?

  • Prov 22:12
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    12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the transgressor.

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    19The waters wear away the stones; You wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth, and You destroy the hope of man.

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    20In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

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

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    4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

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

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