Job 12:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ He strips understanding from the leaders of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ He takes away understanding from the leaders of the people of the land and of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Common English Bible

²⁴ takes away the power to think from earth’s leaders, making them wander in untraveled wastelands.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ He transforms the heart of the leaders of the people on earth, and misleads those who in vain advance upon the inviolable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them, that they walk in vain where there is no way.

Job 12:24 Cross References

Job 12:20

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Job 17:4

Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

Psalm 107:4

Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town;

Psalm 107:40

he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes,

Psalm 59:12

For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,

Isaiah 19:1

An oracle concerning Egypt. See, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Daniel 4:12

Its foliage was beautiful, its fruit abundant, and it provided food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, the birds of the air nested in its branches, and from it all living beings were fed.

Daniel 4:13

“I continued looking, in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and there was a holy watcher coming down from heaven.

Daniel 4:16

Let his mind be changed from that of a human, and let the mind of an animal be given to him. And let seven times pass over him.

Daniel 4:33

Immediately the sentence was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven away from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers and his nails became like birds’ claws.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim has become like a dove, silly and without sense; they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.