11. Does the ear not try words? And the mouth taste food for itself?
12. With the aged is wisdom, and understanding with length of days.
13. With Him are wisdom and might, He has counsel and understanding.
14. Look, He breaks down, and it is not rebuilt. If He imprisons a man, there is no release.
15. Look, He withholds the waters, and they dry up. And He sends them out, and they overwhelm the earth.
16. With Him are strength and ability. The misled and the misleader are His.
17. He leads counsellors away stripped, and makes judges go mad.
18. He loosens the bonds of sovereigns, and binds a girdle on their loins;
19. who leads away priests as a spoil, and overthrows the mighty;
20. turning aside the lip of the trusted ones, and takes away the discernment of the elders;
21. pouring scorn on nobles, and loosens the girdle of the strong;
22. revealing deep matters out of darkness, and He brings the shadow of death to light;
23. making nations great, and He destroys them; spreading out the nations, and He leads them out.