Job 12:19-25 ▼

19 He makes priests walk barefoot And subverts the enduring ones.

20 He removes speech from the faithful And takes away the discerning taste 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 out the shadows of death into light.

23 He makes the nations great, then makes them perish; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.

24 He removes the heart of wisdom from the heads 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 wander about like a drunken man.