Job 17:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.”
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“You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 17:4 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 15:31Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
- 2 Samuel 17:14Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
- 2 Chronicles 25:16While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
- Isaiah 19:14The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
- Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
- Matthew 13:11He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
- Romans 11:8as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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