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Bible in Basic English
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore You will not exalt them.
King James Version
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Holman Bible
therefore You will not honor them.
International Standard Version
"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.
A Conservative Version
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].
American Standard Version
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them .
Amplified
“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].
Darby Translation
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt not exalt them.
King James 2000
For you have hidden their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.
Modern King James verseion
For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not lift them up.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.
NET Bible
Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
New Heart English Bible
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
The Emphasized Bible
For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
Webster
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
World English Bible
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
Youngs Literal Translation
For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 17:4
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Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech, Continued
3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine. 4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour. 5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
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2 Samuel 15:31
And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.
2 Samuel 17:14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.
2 Chronicles 25:16
But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
Matthew 13:11
And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Romans 11:8
As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?