Job 12:12-25 - Wisdom Comes From God

¹² “Wisdom is with aged men,
With long life is understanding.

¹³ “With Him are wisdom and might;
To Him belong counsel and understanding.
¹⁴ “Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
¹⁵ “Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;
And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
¹⁶ “With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
¹⁷ “He makes counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.
¹⁸ “He loosens the bond of kings
And binds their loins with a girdle.
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 of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
²⁵ “They grope in darkness with no light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.