“Who changeth the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them, that they wander in vain where there is no way, they shall grope in the dark without any light, and He shall make them to stagger like a drunken man. For 'the heart of the chief of the earth was changed,' when the chief priests and eld…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI
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24He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
— Job 12:24 —
25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.