Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
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].
Bible in Basic English
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
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.
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 Appoint it, I pray thee - be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself? 4 For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them. 5 He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31
And, unto David, it was told, saying, Ahithophel, is among the conspirators with Absolom. And David said, Turn to foolishness, I pray thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh.
2 Samuel 17:14
Then said Absolom and all the men of Israel, Better, is the counsel of Hushai the Archite, than the counsel of Ahithophel. Yahweh, indeed, had given charge to frustrate the wise counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring upon Absolom, ruin.
2 Chronicles 25:16
And it came to pass, as he spake unto him, that he said to him, To be, counselor to the king, have we appointed thee? forbear thou, wherefore should they smite thee? So the prophet forbare, and said - I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
Isaiah 19:14
Yahweh, hath infused in her midst, a spirit of perverseness, - And they have led Egypt astray into all his own doings, As a drunken man staggereth into his own vomit;
Matthew 11:25
In that season, answered Jesus, and said - I openly give praise unto thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, - in that thou hast hid these things from the wise and discerning, and hast revealed them unto babes;
Matthew 13:11
And, he, answering, said, Because, unto you, hath it been given, to get to know the sacred secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, - whereas, unto them, hath it not been given.
Romans 11:8
Even as it is written - God hath given unto 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? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?