Job 17:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But their hearts [Lord] You have closed to understanding; therefore You will not let them triumph [by giving them a verdict against me].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Common English Bible

⁴ You’ve closed their mind to insight; therefore, you won’t be exalted.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ You have set their heart far from discipline; therefore, they will not be praised.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Thou hast set their heart far from understanding: therefore they shall not be exalted.

Job 17:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, Ahith´ophel is among the conspirators with Ab´salom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahith´ophel into foolishness.

2 Samuel 17:14

And Ab´salom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hu´shai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahith´ophel. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahith´ophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Ab´salom.

2 Chronicles 25:16

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

Job 12:20

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

Job 17:5

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Matthew 13:11

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Romans 11:8

(according as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?