Job 12:12-25 - Wisdom Comes From God

¹² "Among old persons there is wisdom, and among the aged is understanding.

¹³ Yea, with God is wisdom and strength - it is he that hath counsel and foreknowledge. ¹⁴ If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it? ¹⁵ Behold, if he withhold the waters, they dry up; If he let them go, they destroy the earth. ¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver and him that is deceived. ¹⁷ He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits. ¹⁸ He taketh away the subjection of the people from their kings, and girdeth their loins with a bond. ¹⁹ He leadeth away the priests into captivity, and turneth the mighty upside down. ²⁰ He taketh the verity from out of the mouth, and disappointeth the aged of their wisdom. ²¹ He poureth out confusion upon princes, and comforteth them that have been oppressed. ²² "Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light! ²³ He both increaseth the people and destroyeth them; He maketh them to multiply, and driveth them away. ²⁴ He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way, ²⁵ and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.