That bringeth the princes to nothing. — The words imply, like those of Isaiah 14:9, the prophetic strain of experience. The past is full of the records of kingdoms that are no more; so also shall the future be; mortalia facta peribunt. In “vanity” we have the familiar tohu once more.
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Isaiah 40:23
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.