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23 He makes nations great and destroys them,
    spreads peoples abroad and abandons them.
24 He takes understanding from the leaders of the land,
    makes them wander in a pathless desert.
25 They grope in the darkness without light;
    he makes them wander like drunkards.

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23 (A)He makes nations great, and destroys them;
He [a]enlarges nations, and guides them.
24 He takes away the [b]understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth,
And (B)makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.
25 (C)They grope in the dark without light,
And He makes them (D)stagger like a drunken man.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:23 Lit. spreads out
  2. Job 12:24 Lit. heart

23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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