Job 12:21, 24, Isa 23:8-9 | ESV | STEP | He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong .

Job 12:21

21 He ^apours contempt on princes
and loosens the belt of the strong.

Job 12:24

24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and ^bmakes them wander in a trackless waste.

Isaiah 23:8-9

8 Who has purposed this
against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
^cto defile the pompous pride of all glory, ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike}
to dishonor all the honored of the earth.