Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.

New American Standard Bible

Because God has made her forget wisdom,
And has not given her a share of understanding.

King James Version

Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

Holman Bible

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.

A Conservative Version

because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.

American Standard Version

Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

Amplified


For God has made her forget wisdom,
And has not given her a share of understanding.

Bible in Basic English

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

Darby Translation

For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.

Julia Smith Translation

For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding.

King James 2000

Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Lexham Expanded Bible

because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.

Modern King James verseion

because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And that because God hath taken wisdom from her, and hath not given her understanding.

NET Bible

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

New Heart English Bible

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

The Emphasized Bible

For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.

Webster

Because God hath withheld wisdom from her, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

World English Bible

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Youngs Literal Translation

For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

נשׁה 
Nashah 
Usage: 7

her of wisdom
חכמה 
Chokmah 
Usage: 149

References

American

Hastings

Job

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

The Ostrich

16 She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain, 17 because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding. 18 And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider."



Cross References

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Deuteronomy 2:30

But King Sihon of Heshbon did not allow us to pass through, because the LORD your God had hardened his spirit and made him arrogant, in order to deliver him into your control today.

2 Chronicles 32:31

Later on, envoys came from the princes of Babylon to inquire about the miracle that had happened in the land. God left Hezekiah to himself, so that he might make known what was really in Hezekiah's heart.

Job 17:4

"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.

Isaiah 19:11-14

Zoan's princes are nothing but fools; the wisest advisors of Pharaoh give stupid advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I'm a descendant of wise men, a descendant of ancient kings"?

Isaiah 57:17

Because of his wicked greed I was angry, so I punished him; and I hid my face, and was angry but he kept turning back to his stubborn will.

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow.

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