Job 12:20

He deprives trusted advisers of speech
and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

It is not only the old who are wise
or the elderly who understand how to judge.

You have closed their minds to understanding,
therefore You will not honor them.

He deprives the world’s leaders of reason,
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.

The lips of the righteous feed many,
but fools die for lack of sense.

Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue, only a moment.

Lying lips are detestable to the Lord,
but faithful people are His delight.

Observe this: The Lord God of Hosts
is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
every kind of security:
the entire supply of bread and water,

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He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

The lips of the righteous feed many,
but fools die for lack of sense.

Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue, only a moment.

He deprives the world’s leaders of reason,
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

You have closed their minds to understanding,
therefore You will not honor them.

It is not only the old who are wise
or the elderly who understand how to judge.

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.

Observe this: The Lord God of Hosts
is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
every kind of security:
the entire supply of bread and water,