Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

New American Standard Bible

“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
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

You have closed their minds to understanding,
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For thou hast hid
צפן 
Tsaphan 
Usage: 32

שׂכל שׂכל 
Sekel 
Usage: 16

therefore shalt thou not exalt
רוּם 
Ruwm 
Usage: 189

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Job's Fifth Speech, Continued

3 O deliver me and set me by thee: who shall then be able to thrust my hands together? 4 Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high. 5 He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, "Ahithophel is one of them that have conspired with Absalom." Then said David, "O LORD, turn the counsel of Ahithophel unto foolishness."

2 Samuel 17:14

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said that the counsel of Hushai the Archite was better than the counsel of Ahithophel - For it was even the LORD's determination to destroy the counsel of Ahithophel, which was good, that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Chronicles 25:16

And as the prophet spake to him, he said to the prophet, "Have men made thee of the king's counsel? Cease, lest thou be beaten." And the prophet ceased, and said, "I am sure that God hath taken counsel to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and obeyest not my counsel."

Isaiah 19:14

For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.

Matthew 11:25

At that time, Jesus answered and said, "I praise thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast opened them unto babes,

Matthew 13:11

He answered, and said unto them, "It is given unto you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Romans 11:8

according as it is written, "God hath given them the spirit of unquietness: eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, even unto this day."

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the searcher of this world? Hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness?

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