Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.