Job 12:24

⁴⁰He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

²⁰He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

¹¹“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

¹⁶Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

⁹He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ ¹⁰Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

⁴For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

¹The burden of Egypt. “Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

³³This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; and his body was wet with the dew of the sky until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.