Job 12:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, And maketh the judges fools.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He leads [great and scheming] counselors away stripped and barefoot and makes the judges fools [in human estimation, by overthrowing their plans].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ He leads advisors away barefoot; makes madmen of judges;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ He leads advisors to a foolish end and judges to stupidity.

Job 12:17 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 15:31

Then someone told David saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Adonai, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Adonai had ordained to thwart Ahithophel’s good counsel, so that Adonai might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, went to his home in his hometown set his house in order, and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my honor, and removed the crown from my head.

Job 3:14

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now desolate,

Job 9:24

If the land falls into the hand of the wicked He blindfolds the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore, behold, once more I will do a marvelous work among this people— a marvel and a wonder— so the wisdom of their wise will perish, and the discernment of their discerning will be concealed.”

Daniel 9:12

So He has confirmed His words that he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled over us by bringing on us a great calamity. Under the whole heaven nothing like this has ever been done to Jerusalem!