Job 12:20, 24-25 | ESV | STEP | He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders .

Job 12:20

20 He deprives of speech those who are trusted
^aand takes away the discernment of the elders.

Job 12:24-25

24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and ^bmakes them wander in a trackless waste.
25 They ^cgrope in the dark without light,
and he makes them ^dstagger like a drunken man.