Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
In other versions
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt `them'.
ASV
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
BBE
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
DBY
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them.
WEB
For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
YLT
For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
ENG
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
WBT
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
BSB
In context
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
