Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.
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.
Bible in Basic English
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
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.
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 It deals cruelly with its young ones, as [if] [they were] not its [own], as [if] without fear [that] its labor [were] in vain, 17 because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding. 18 When it spreads its wings {aloft}, it laughs at the horse and its rider.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 35:11
[who] teaches us more than [the] animals of [the] earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his [territory] because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and {made him obstinate} {in order to give him} into your hand, {just as he has now done}.
2 Chronicles 32:31
And thus [in the matter of] the envoys of the commanders of Babylon who had been sent to him to seek the sign that had happened in the land, God forsook him, to test him [and] to know all [that was] in his heart.
Job 17:4
Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.
Isaiah 19:11-14
Surely the princes of Zoan [are] foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh [give] senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I myself [am] a son of sages, a {descendant} of ancient kings"?
Isaiah 57:17
I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.