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Job 17:4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
Job 17:4 · World English Bible
Job 17:4 in other translations
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
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In context
1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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