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

    13 With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.

    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.

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

    19 He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

  • Job 12:21-25
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    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 5:12-13
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    12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot accomplish their schemes.

    13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is brought to a rapid end.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40 He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

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

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

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty and casts down the strength of its confidence.

  • Job 14:19-20
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    19 The 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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    20 In 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.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their place.

    25 Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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    11 Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; he commits offense, ascribing this power to his god.

  • Dan 2:21
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    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.

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    20 Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

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    5 He removes the mountains, and they know it not: He overturns them in His anger.

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    14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

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    2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

  • Job 17:4
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    4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

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

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

  • Prov 16:30
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    30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

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    2 Indeed, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age has perished?

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    4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

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    8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him,

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    17 That He may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man.

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    10 If He passes by, and imprisons, or gathers together, then who can stop Him?

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    7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

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    23 Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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    2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the wise, and the elder,

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    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.

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