Job 12:17 meaning and explanation

He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.

Job 12:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering his friends, who have insisted that suffering proves wrongdoing. Here he turns their tidy wisdom upside down: God is free to act, and He does not always reward the wise or the powerful as we expect.

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