Job 39:17
15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
- KJV
- Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
- WEB
- because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
- ASV
- Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
- DARBY
- For God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
- BLB
- for God made her forget wisdom, and He has not given a portion to her in understanding.
- ÅB
- For Gud nektet den visdom og gav den ingen forstand.
- OTB
- Fordi Gud har fratatt henne visdom,
Og ikke har gitt henne en del av forstand. - B1930
- For Gud nektet den visdom og gav den ingen forstand.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Read in contextJames 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Read in contextIsaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:31
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
Read in contextIsaiah 19:11–14
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Read in contextJob 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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