Job 39:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ because God has made it forget wisdom and given it no share in understanding.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has He imparted to her understanding.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ God didn’t endow her with sense, didn’t give her some good sense.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For God has deprived her of wisdom; neither has he given her understanding.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For God hath deprived her of wisdom: neither hath he given her understanding.

Job 39:17 Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:31

So also in the matter of the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

Job 17:4

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

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

Job 39:16

It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;

Job 39:18

When it spreads its plumes aloft, it laughs at the horse and its rider.

Isaiah 57:17

Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry; I struck them; I hid and was angry, but they kept turning back to their own ways.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But King Sihon of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through, for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart defiant in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.