Parallel Verses
Webster
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou 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.
The Emphasized Bible
For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt 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
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech, Continued
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 15:31
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 17:14
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
2 Chronicles 25:16
And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Art thou made of the king's council? forbear? why shouldst thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.
Isaiah 19:14
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.
Matthew 13:11
He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries 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 slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?