Job 17:4

Modern English Version

For You have hidden their heart from understanding. Therefore will You not exalt them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Now it was reported to David that Ahithophel was conspiring with Absalom, and David said, “O  Lord, make the advice of Ahithophel folly.”

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all of the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had decided to undermine the prudent advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring calamity to Absalom.

2 Chronicles 25:16

But while the prophet was speaking, the king said, “Have we made you a counselor to the king? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” The prophet refrained, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and not heeded my advice.”

Job 12:20

He removes speech from the trusted ones and takes away the understanding of the aged.

Job 17:5

He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her; so they have caused Egypt to err in her every work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 13:11

He answered them, “It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Romans 11:8

As it is written: “God has given them a spirit of slumber, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

1 Corinthians 1:20

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