Job 12:21

God pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong. He brings low the noble and disarms the mighty.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
• Dan 2:21–22He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
• Isa 23:9The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• 2 Kgs 9:26‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
• Exod 8:2But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
• 1 Kgs 21:23–24And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
• Exod 16:24So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.
• Isa 24:21–22In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
• Isa 5:27None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
• 2 Kgs 9:34–37Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”
• Eph 6:10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
• Isa 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 reigned in his place.
• Isa 22:21I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
• Dan 4:32–33You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
• Matt 2:12–13And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
• Isa 11:5Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
• Eph 6:14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,

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