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Job 17:4

World English Bible

For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
Therefore you will not exalt them.

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Job 17:4 in other translations

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Job 17:4 · American Standard Version

Job 17:4 in context

  1. 2Surely there are mockers with me.
    My eye dwells on their provocation.
  2. 3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
    Who is there who will strike hands with me?
  3. 4For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
    Therefore you will not exalt them.
  4. 5He who denounces his friends for plunder,
    Even the eyes of his children will fail.
  5. 6“But he has made me a byword of the people.
    They spit in my face.