Job 12:13

"God's destructive powers are irreversible. If He tears down, 'it cannot be rebuilt', and if He imprisons someone, he cannot escape. When He holds back waters, there is drought, and if He releases the waters they flood the earth. Captives and captors alike are both under His control. He conquers, puts down, and reverses the fortunes of counselors, judges, kings, priests, 'the secure ones' (i.e., well-established officials), 'the trusted ones, elders, nobles, and the strong'-those who are the very foundations of justice and order in government, court, and temple. God is also sovereign over entire nations. He makes them great and destroys them; He spreads them out (i.e., causes their territory to extend) and leads them away as captives. All the above-mentioned human leaders are supposed to give light and security to others by their counsel and leadership. But in contrast to God, they are in darkness. Only He can reveal mysteries from the darkness and bring to light what is in the deep darkness. Is this an answer to Zophar's question 'Can you discover the depths of God?' (Job 11:7). If so, Job's response is that he cannot comprehend the infinite ways of God, but neither can Zophar! If man is ever to understand anything of what is incomprehensibly dark, God must take the initiative in revealing it to him. Job said that God can deprive chiefs of their intelligence, even giving them such confusion that they stagger in the wasteland, grope in darkness. and stagger like drunken men. What. picture of the directionless and unintelligible stupor of leaders who are objects of God's destructive powers. And how cleverly Job demolished his counselors' counsel: If their theological system were followed, then all the world's authorities ought to be blessed by God. But history destroys that logic, as Job has just shown" (Zuck pp. 56-57).