Job 12:24
He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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- Ps 107:40 : 40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
- Job 12:20 : 20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
- Job 17:4 : 4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
- Ps 107:4 : 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
- Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.' 10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."
- Isa 19:1 : 1 The burden of Egypt: "Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
- Dan 4:16 : 16 let his heart be changed from man's, and let an animal's heart be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.
- Dan 4:33 : 33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].
- Hos 7:11 : 11 "Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
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- Job 12:14-2310 verses82%
14Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
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25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
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23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
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1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
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16For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
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24He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
25Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
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2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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12It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
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17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
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11They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
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7However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
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12He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth. For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.
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12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
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28For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
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24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
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12And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
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10So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
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12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
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12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
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5He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
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1The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
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10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
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18"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
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12to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.
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12The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
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16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
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11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
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14and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
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2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.
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4In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"