¹⁶ With Him are strength and prudence.
The deceived and the deceiver are His.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away plundered,
And makes fools of the judges.

^12 (A)Where are they?
Where are your wise men?
Let them tell you now,
And let them know what the Lord of hosts has ^(B)purposed against Egypt.
¹³ The princes of Zoan have become fools;
^(C)The princes of ^[a]Noph are deceived;
They have also ^[b]deluded Egypt,
Those who are the ^[c]mainstay of its tribes.
¹⁴ The Lord has mingled ^(D)a perverse spirit in her midst;
And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.