16. With Him [are] strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.
17. Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.
18. The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.
19. Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.
20. Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
21. Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.
22. Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.
23. Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.