Job 17:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:29 : 29 Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness `is' in it.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.
  • Mal 3:18 : 18 And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
  • 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!
  • Job 12:2 : 2 Truly -- ye `are' the people, And with you doth wisdom die.
  • Job 15:9 : 9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
  • Job 32:9 : 9 The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

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    11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

  • Eccl 1:15-17
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    15A crooked thing `one' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

    16I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

  • Eccl 7:19-20
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    19The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.

    20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

  • Isa 41:28
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    28And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:

  • Eccl 9:15-17
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    15and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

    16And I said, `Better `is' wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --

    17The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools.

  • Eccl 7:10
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    10Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

  • Eccl 7:23-25
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    23All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me.

    24Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?

    25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • Job 28:12
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    12And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

  • Eccl 10:15
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    15The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.

  • Prov 7:7
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    7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

  • Eccl 2:12
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    12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

    15and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

    16That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

  • Job 32:9
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    9The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

  • Job 34:34
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    34Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.

  • Eccl 7:27-28
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    27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

    28(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He `is' a fool.'

  • 1 Cor 6:5
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    5unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

  • Prov 1:25
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    25And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

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    3I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

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    9Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

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    7Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

    8The wisdom of the prudent `is' to understand his way, And the folly of fools `is' deceit.

  • Job 32:13
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    13Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?

  • 1 Cor 1:20
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    20where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

  • Job 6:13
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    13Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?

  • Prov 29:9
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    9A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

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    2Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.

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    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

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    4The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

    5Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for' a man to hear a song of fools,

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    13This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

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    12Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

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    12Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why `is' this -- ye are altogether vain?

  • Job 28:20
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    20And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

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    3Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

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    1Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?