Job 12:11-25

11Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food? 12With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. 13With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding. 14Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. 15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 16With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his. 17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; 18He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter; 19He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty; 20He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders; 21He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty; 22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death; 23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in; 24He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste. 25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.