He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.

他废去忠信人的讲论，又夺去老人的聪明。

他废去忠信者的言论，夺去长者的见识。

他废去忠信者的言论，夺去长者的见识。

祂夺去智者的口才，祂拿走长者的洞见。

他除掉忠信人的言论，又除去老年人的辨别力。

他廢去忠信人的講論，又奪去老人的聰明。

他廢去忠信者的言論，奪去長者的見識。

他廢去忠信者的言論，奪去長者的見識。

祂奪去智者的口才，祂拿走長者的洞見。

他除掉忠信人的言論，又除去老年人的辨別力。

他把受信靠者的口才廢掉，又將老年人的謹慎智慮奪去。

廢忠誠者之才辯、奪年老者之知識、

忠藎之言、使之不納、元老之明、使之忽昧。

使素有口才者、素有口才者或作盡忠者言詞遲純、使老者昧其知識、

He shuts the mouths of trusted advisers. He takes away the understanding of elders.

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

He silences the trusted adviser and removes the insight of the elders.

He deprives trusted advisers of speech and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the discernment of the elders.

He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the discernment of the elders.

He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

He deprives trusted advisers of speech and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right.

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.

for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.

The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.

See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water,the hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.