Job 17:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

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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.

Job 17:4 Cross References

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;

Matthew 13:11

He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

2 Samuel 17:14

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring ruin on Absalom.

Romans 11:8

as it is written, “God gave them a sluggish spirit, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

2 Chronicles 25:16

But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”

2 Samuel 15:31

David was told that Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Job 12:20

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

Job 17:5

Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.