Job 12:22-24

New International Reader's Version

²² He tells people the secrets of darkness.
    He brings total darkness out into the light.
²³ He makes nations great, and then he destroys them.
    He makes nations grow, and then he scatters them.
²⁴ He takes away the understanding of the leaders of the earth.
    He makes them wander in a desert where no one lives.