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 contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
• Dan 2:21–22He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;
• Isa 23:9Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
• Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• 2 Kgs 9:26‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”
• Exod 8:2If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
• 1 Kgs 21:23–24Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
• Exod 16:24They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
• Isa 24:21–22It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
• Isa 5:27No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken:
• 2 Kgs 9:34–37When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”
• Eph 6:10Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
• Isa 37:38As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
• Isa 22:21and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
• Dan 4:32–33You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.”
• Matt 2:12–13Being warned in a dream that they shouldn’t return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.
• Isa 11:5Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
• Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

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