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Job 17:4 Cross-References
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“For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.”
Job 17:4 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding (כִּי־לִבָּם צָפַנְתָּ מִשָּׂכֶל, ki-libbam tsafanta mi-sakel)—Job addresses God directly: tsafanta (you have hidden/concealed) indicates divine agency in his friends' blindness. Sakel (understanding/insight/wisdom) is the discernment they lack despite their verbose arguments. This echoes Isaiah 6:9-10 and anticipates Jesus's teaching on spiritual blindness (Matthew 13:13-15).Therefore shalt thou not exalt them (עַל־כֵּן לֹא תְרוֹמֵם, al-ken lo teromem)—Teromem (exalt, lift up) means vindication or honor. Job prophesies that God will not honor h...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 17:4
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“Jesus answered”
“To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.,He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.,,,,,,,,”
“The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel”
“Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”
“like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.”
“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.{Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10}”
“as he talked with him”
“saying”