Job 39:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Job 35:11 : 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
  • Isa 19:11-14 : 11 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? 12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
  • Isa 57:17 : 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.
  • Jas 1:17 : 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.
  • Deut 2:30 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 32:31 : 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.
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

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  • Job 39:14-16
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    14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

    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;

  • 18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18 [There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up.

    19 These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

  • 28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    13 ¶ A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

    14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

  • 20 ¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?

  • Prov 30:2-3
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    2 Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.

    3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

  • 12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?

  • Prov 2:17-18
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    17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

    18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  • 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

  • 13 [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.

  • 16 ¶ Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?

  • 13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

  • 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

  • 19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

  • 13 With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

  • 5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.

  • 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

  • 30 ¶ [There is] no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

  • 2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

  • 1 ¶ Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

  • 36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

  • 9 Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

  • 22 ¶ [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.

  • 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

  • 20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

  • 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt.

  • 22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • 9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

  • 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

  • 4 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

  • 1 ¶ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

  • 11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

  • 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  • 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

  • 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.

  • 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

  • 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • 16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough.

  • 3 ¶ The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

  • 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;