Job 17:4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
- 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
- 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, "Have we made you one of the king's counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" Then the prophet stopped, and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel."
- Isa 19:14 : 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
- Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
- Matt 13:11 : 11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
- Rom 11:8 : 8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
- 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- 78%
18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
- Ps 31:19-202 verses74%
19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
20 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
- 74%
13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
- 74%
18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
- 74%
5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
- 73%
4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
- 73%
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
- 73%
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
- 72%
12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
- 72%
2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
- 72%
28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
- 72%
4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
- 71%
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
- 71%
15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"
- 71%
14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
- 71%
22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
- 71%
40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."
- 71%
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
- 71%
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- 71%
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
- 71%
21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
- 71%
33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
- 71%
11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
- 71%
65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
- 71%
13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"
- 70%
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
- 70%
2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
- 70%
17 The way of peace, they haven't known."
- 70%
17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
- 70%
12 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
- 70%
21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
- 70%
3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
- 70%
18 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
- 70%
4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."
- 70%
17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
- 70%
10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.
- 70%
13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
- 70%
18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
- 70%
6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
- 70%
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
- 70%
5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- 70%
10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
- 70%
29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.
- 70%
24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."
- 70%
2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
- 70%
15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
- 70%
13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
- 70%
8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
- 70%
13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.