Job 12:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ Strength and wisdom are his;
    his too are the deceived and the deceivers.
¹⁷ “He deprives counselors of their wits
    and makes fools of judges.
¹⁸ He looses the sashes of kings
    and gives them only a waistcloth to cover their loins.^[a]