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Job 12:11-25

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11“Does the ear not put words to the test,

As the palate tastes its food?

12“Wisdom is with the aged,

And with long life comes understanding.

13“Wisdom and might are with Him;

Advice and understanding belong to Him.

14“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;

He imprisons a person, and there is no release.

15“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;

And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

16“Strength and sound wisdom are with Him.

One who goes astray and one who leads astray belong to Him.

17“He makes advisers walk barefoot

And makes fools of judges.

18“He undoes the binding of kings,

And ties a loincloth around their waist.

19“He makes priests walk barefoot,

And overthrows the secure ones.

20“He deprives the trusted ones of speech,

And takes away the discernment of the elders.

21“He pours contempt on nobles,

And loosens the belt of the strong.

22“He reveals mysteries from the darkness,

And brings the deep darkness into light.

23“He makes the nations great, then destroys them;

He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.

24“He deprives the leaders of the earth’s people of intelligence

And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

25“They grope in darkness with no light,

And He makes them stagger like a drunken person.