Job 12:16 · KJV
“With him {is} strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver {are} his.”
— Job 12:16
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
Job 12 — Context
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. {up: Heb. upon}
15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16With him {is} strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver {are} his.
17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
18He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Cross References
Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {so} mock him?
1 Kings 22:22-23
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade {him}, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Job 12:13
With him {is} wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. {With...: that is, With God}
Ezekiel 14:9
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Job 13:7
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?