Job 12:20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 12 connects to 9 cross-references. Job sarcastically concedes his friends' wisdom before asserting that he has understanding equal to theirs. He surveys God's sovereign control over nations, counselors, priests, and kings, bringing them to ruin or exalting them at will. The chapter emphasizes divine freedom …
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He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;
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He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in …
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the …
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.