Job 12:17
Causing counselors to go away [as] a spoil, || Indeed, He makes fools of judges.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
In Context
16With Him [are] strength and wisdom, || His the deceived and deceiver.
18He has opened the bands of kings, || And He binds a girdle on their loins.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31and David declared, saying, “Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom”; and David says, “Please make the counsel of Ahithophel foolish, O YHWH.”
2 Samuel 17:23And Ahithophel has seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddles the donkey, and rises and goes to his house, to his city, and gives charge to his household, and strangles himself, and dies, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
Job 9:24Earth has been given || Into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of her judges, || If not—where, who [is] he?
Isaiah 29:14Therefore, behold, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, || A wonder, and a marvel, || And the wisdom of its wise ones has perished, || And the understanding of its intelligent ones hides itself.”
Matthew Henry on Job 12:13-25
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. 18 He looseth… Read the whole commentary →