Job 17:4

Tree of Life Version

Because You have closed their heart to understanding, therefore You will not exalt them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Then someone told David saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Adonai, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Adonai had ordained to thwart Ahithophel’s good counsel, so that Adonai might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Chronicles 25:16

But while he was still speaking to him, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you a counselor to the king? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped after he said, “Now I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have acted this way and have not listened to my counsel.”

Job 12:20

He silences the lips of trusted advisors and removes the discernment of elders.

Job 17:5

If anyone denounces his friends for profit the eyes of his children will fail.

Isaiah 19:14

Adonai has mixed within her a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in every work, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Yeshua said in response, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and discerning and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 13:11

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

Romans 11:8

just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this very day.”

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise one? Where is the Torah scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of the world?