Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it 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 treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear; 17 because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding. 18 At the time she lifts herself up on high, she scorns 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 would not let us pass by him. For Jehovah your God hardened his spirit and made his heart stubborn so that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.
2 Chronicles 32:31
But, in regard to the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon who sent to him to ask about the wonder that was done in the land, God left him in order to try him, to know all that was in his heart.
Job 17:4
For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not lift them up.
Isaiah 19:11-14
Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself, and was angry, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning.