"He deprives of understanding the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste." The leaders of nations are made to wander confused in wasteland—their intelligence voided, their authority dissolved. The image of wandering without path suggests not merely deprivation but disorientation, not merely loss of power but loss of coherence. If God so handles the great, Job's own disorientation and powerlessness begins to seem cosmically rather than morally determined.

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