18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

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18 He takes off the shackles(A) put on by kings
    and ties a loincloth[a] around their waist.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:18 Or shackles of kings / and ties a belt

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

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No one from the east or the west
    or from the desert can exalt themselves.

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But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

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It is God who judges:(A)
    He brings one down, he exalts another.(B)

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I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

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With my great power and outstretched arm(A) I made(B) the earth and its people and the animals(C) that are on it, and I give(D) it to anyone I please.

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