Isaiah 40:23
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He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 19:13,14 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof. . . .

Isaiah 23:9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.

Isaiah 24:21,22 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth. . . .

Job 12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.

Job 34:19,20 Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands. . . .

Psalm 76:12 Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

Psalm 107:40 Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

Jeremiah 25:18-27 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day. . . .

Luke 1:52,52 He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble. . . .

Revelation 19:18-20 That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great. . . .

Context
Here is Your God!
22It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. 23He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.24And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.…
Cross References
Job 12:21
He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.

Psalm 107:40
Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

Isaiah 5:21
Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Isaiah 34:12
The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.

Jeremiah 25:18
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.

Amos 2:3
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

Lexicon
He brings
הַנּוֹתֵ֥ן (han·nō·w·ṯên)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

the princes
רוֹזְנִ֖ים (rō·wz·nîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7336: To be weighty, judicious or commanding

to nothing
לְאָ֑יִן (lə·’ā·yin)
Preposition-l | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

and makes
עָשָֽׂה׃ (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

the judges
שֹׁ֥פְטֵי (šō·p̄ə·ṭê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

of the earth
אֶ֖רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

meaningless.
כַּתֹּ֥הוּ (kat·tō·hū)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8414: A desolation, desert, a worthless thing, in vain


Additional Translations
He brings the princes to nothing and makes the judges of the earth meaningless.That brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

that bringeth princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;
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