Job 12:21
He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
BSB
ASV
He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.
KJV
He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
He poureth contempt upon princes,.... Not on good princes, such as rule in righteousness, and decree judgment and govern their subjects according to good laws, in a mild and gentle manner, and answer to their name of free, liberal, beneficent and munificent.
Ps 107:40 quotes, in its first clause, this verse and, in its second, Job 12:24. weakeneth the strength--literally, "looseth the girdle"; Orientals wear flowing garments; when active strength is to be put forth, they gird up their garments with a girdle.
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Psalms 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
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He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair…
Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
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Isaiah 37:38One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon…
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On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses…
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon…
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Exodus 8:2But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.