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With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding.

Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:

Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth:

With Him, is strength and effective wisdom, to Him, belong he that erreth, and he that causeth to err.

Who leadeth away counsellors as a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth:

The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave's waistcloth about their loins:

Who leadeth away priests as a spoil, and, men firmly seated, He overturneth:

Setting aside the speech of the trusty, and, the discernment of elders, He taketh away:

Pouring contempt upon nobles, and, the girdle of the mighty, hath He loosed:

Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death-shade:

Who giveth greatness to nations, or destroyeth them, Who spreadeth out nations, or leadeth them into exile:

Who taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and hath caused them to wander in a pathless waste:

They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.