Job 17:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not honour them.

Cross References

Matthew 11:25

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

Matthew 13:11

He answered, ‘Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know,   but it has not been given to them.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law?  Where is the debater of this age?  Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

2 Samuel 17:14

Since the Lord had decreed  that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined  in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, ‘The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.’

Romans 11:8

as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear, to this day.  ,

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of confusion. The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

2 Chronicles 25:16

While he was still speaking to him, the king asked, ‘Have we made you the king’s counsellor? Stop, why should you lose your life? ’ So the prophet stopped, but he said, ‘I know that God intends to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.’

2 Samuel 15:31

Then someone reported to David, ‘Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.’ ‘Lord,’ David pleaded, ‘please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness! ’

Job 12:20

He deprives trusted advisers of speech and takes away the elders’ good judgement.

Job 17:5

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.