Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
New American Standard Bible
And has not given her a share of understanding.
King James Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Holman Bible
He has not endowed her with understanding.
International Standard Version
because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.
A Conservative Version
because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.
American Standard Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Amplified
For God has made her forget wisdom,
And has not given her a share of understanding.
Darby Translation
For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
Julia Smith Translation
For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding.
King James 2000
Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Lexham Expanded Bible
because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.
Modern King James verseion
because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And that because God hath taken wisdom from her, and hath not given her understanding.
NET Bible
For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.
New Heart English Bible
because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
The Emphasized Bible
For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
Webster
Because God hath withheld wisdom from her, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
World English Bible
because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Youngs Literal Translation
For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Ostrich
16 She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. 17 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. 18 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 35:11
Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
2 Chronicles 32:31
However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.
Job 17:4
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
Isaiah 19:11-14
The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?
Isaiah 57:17
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.