Job 12:24
He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.
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- Ps 107:40 : 40 He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
- Job 12:20 : 20 He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
- Job 17:4 : 4 Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
- Ps 107:4 : 4 They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live.
- Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’ 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
- Isa 19:1 : 1 The Lord Will Judge Egypt This is an oracle about Egypt: Look, the LORD rides on a swift-moving cloud and approaches Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him; the Egyptians lose their courage.
- Dan 4:16 : 16 Let his mind be altered from that of a human being, and let an animal’s mind be given to him, and let seven periods of time go by for him.
- Dan 4:33 : 33 Now in that very moment this pronouncement about Nebuchadnezzar came true. He was driven from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until his hair became long like an eagle’s feathers, and his nails like a bird’s claws.
- Hos 7:11 : 11 Israel Turns to Assyria and Egypt for Help Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.
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- Job 12:14-2310 verses82%
14If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.
15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
16With him are strength and prudence; both the one who goes astray and the one who misleads are his.
17He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.
18He loosens the bonds of kings and binds a loincloth around their waist.
19He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.
20He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
21He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.
22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.
23He makes nations great, and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses them.
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25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
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23He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.
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1The Lord Will Judge the Earth Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
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16The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.
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24He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.
25Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
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2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.
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12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.
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17Is this the one who made the world like a wilderness, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’
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11They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.
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7But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.
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12He humbles princes; the kings of the earth regard him as awesome.
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12If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’
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28They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.
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24If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?
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12and the LORD has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.
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10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.
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4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
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34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
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12Oppressors treat my people cruelly; creditors rule over them. My people’s leaders mislead them; they give you confusing directions.
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12I said,“Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the LORD that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”
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5He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;
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1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.
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10The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
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18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.
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12to loot and plunder, to attack the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center of the earth.”
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12The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.
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9“When this happens,” says the LORD,“the king and his officials will lose their courage. The priests will be struck with horror, and the prophets will be speechless in astonishment.”
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16So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.
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11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
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13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
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6It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows. It angrily ruled over nations, oppressing them without restraint.
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24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
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14with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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4The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.
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14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.
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2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
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3A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.
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4In that day people will sing this taunt song to you– they will mock you with this lament:‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’