Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding.
New American Standard Bible
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
He has not endowed her with understanding.
International Standard Version
because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her 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.
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:
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Ostrich
16 She made hard to her sons as not to her: her labor in vain without fear; 17 For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding. 18 For the time she will lash herself up upon height, she will laugh at the horse and at his rider.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 35:11
And who teacheth us from the cattle of the earth, and he will make us wise above the birds of the heavens?
Deuteronomy 2:30
And Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass by him, for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart strong in order to give him into thy hand as this day.
2 Chronicles 32:31
Thus in the chiefs of Babel interceding, sending to him to seek out the sign which was in the land, God left him, to try him, to know all in his heart
Job 17:4
For thou didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt not exalt them.
Isaiah 19:11-14
Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old?
Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his plunder was I angry, and I will smite him: covering myself, and I will be angry, and he went turning away in the way of his heart.
James 1:17
Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.