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 shall you 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: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Dan 4:16 : 16 let his heart be changed from man's, and let a 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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14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.
19 He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
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25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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40 He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
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23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
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1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
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16 For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.
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24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.
25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
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2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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12 It is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatever he commands them On the surface of the habitable world,
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17 who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"
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11 They 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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7 However 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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12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
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12 Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
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28 For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.
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24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it?
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12 And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
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10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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34 And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
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12 As 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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12 Who 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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5 Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger
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1 The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
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10 Yahweh 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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12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
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14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
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2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against Yahweh.
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4 In 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!'"