Job 12:22

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Job 12:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

21 He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

23 He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

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Job 11:6

and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

Job 28:20

From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?

Job 28:21

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

Job 28:22

Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’

Job 28:23

But God understands its way, and He knows its place.

2 Kings 6:12

But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

Psalms 44:21

would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

Psalms 139:12

even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

Daniel 2:22

He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.

Matthew 10:26

So do not be afraid of them. For there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.

1 Corinthians 2:10

But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

Job 3:5

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

Job 24:17

For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

Job 34:22

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”