1 . A closed mouth is a closed destiny.
The Lord said he's not against you seeking help from people or connections to better your life or secure ( a better) job or opportunity but he only warns that it comes with conditions, a reality you must accept and live with ;
They will take glory for it, they will tell or announce it to the world and it also comes with fear and difficulty on the way. That is, the path might get rough and dirty on the way at some point and or laced with an act of betrayal of trust.
2. An opportunity in a desert, deserted, isolated land, or famine land is of no use to the recipient.
The Lord said the heaven and grace of job opportunities have deserted his hand. That is, spiritually, the enemy has placed where even if and when given an opportunity it deserts him or his hands.
What to do?
He needs to come out of that deserted/isolated land.
He needs to seek the Lord, asking where he is and how to come out of there.
What led him and his destiny to this isolated/deserted place and the cause/source?
Demand and command his spirit man to be lifted out of that wilderness and that every curse of opportunity desertion must be cast into hell.
Above all, this is the time to identify the cause and source of this opportunity waster.
Ps 51, 28, 35_19, and Joel 2;28.
Bless
You.