He taketh

Job 12:20
He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

Job 17:4
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

Isaiah 6:9, 10
And He replied, "Go and tell this people: 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' . . .

Isaiah 19:1
This is an oracle concerning Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Daniel 4:16, 33
Let his mind be changed from that of a man, and let him be given the mind of a beast till seven times pass him by. . . .

Hosea 7:11
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove--calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

and causeth

Psalm 107:4, 40
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city to dwell in. . . .

Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.