Job 12:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ He makes nations great, then destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ He makes nations great, and He destroys them; He enlarges nations [and then straitens and shrinks them again], and leads them [away captive].

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.

Common English Bible

²³ makes nations prominent and destroys them, expands nations and leads them astray;

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ He multiplies peoples, and destroys them, and, having been overthrown, he restores them anew.

Job 12:23 Cross References

Isaiah 26:15

But you have increased the nation, O Lord; you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Isaiah 9:3

You have multiplied exultation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder.

Isaiah 60:22

The least of them shall become a clan and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the Lord; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

Psalm 107:38

By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle decrease.

Zechariah 10:8

I will signal for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as numerous as they were before.

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.

Jeremiah 30:19

Out of them shall come thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers. I will make them many, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be disdained.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah, who bore you, for he was but one when I called him, but I blessed him and made him many.

Isaiah 27:6

In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.

Exodus 1:20

So God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Acts 17:26

From one ancestor he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,

Psalm 107:39

When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,