Job 12:12-25 - Wisdom Comes From God

¹² With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding.

¹³ With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding. ¹⁴ Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened. ¹⁵ Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land. ¹⁶ With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver. ¹⁷ Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish. ¹⁸ The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins. ¹⁹ Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth. ²⁰ Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away. ²¹ Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble. ²² Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade. ²³ Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them. ²⁴ Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way! ²⁵ They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.