Job 39:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־הִשָּׁ֣הּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ חָכְמָ֑ה וְלֹא־חָ֥לַק לָ֝֗הּ בַּבִּינָֽה׃

Transliteration

kî-hiššāh ʾĕlôah ḥokmāh wə-lōʾ-ḥālaq lāh ba-bînāh

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*hiššāh*: hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he caused to forget
*ʾĕlôah*: masculine singular absolute - God
*ḥokmāh*: feminine singular absolute - wisdom
*wə*: conjunction - and
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ḥālaq*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he imparted/distributed
*lāh*: preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - to her
*ba*: preposition with definite article - in the
*bînāh*: feminine singular absolute - understanding

Word Meanings

*kî*: for/because/that
*hiššāh*: he caused to forget/deprived/made to forget
*ʾĕlôah*: God/deity
*ḥokmāh*: wisdom/skill
*ḥālaq*: imparted/distributed/gave a share
*bînāh*: understanding/discernment/intelligence

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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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