Job 17:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.

New Living Translation
You have closed their minds to understanding, but do not let them triumph.

English Standard Version
Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

Berean Study Bible
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

New American Standard Bible
“For You have kept their hearts away from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.

NASB 1995
"For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.

NASB 1977
“For Thou hast kept their heart from understanding; Therefore Thou wilt not exalt them.

Amplified Bible
“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].

Christian Standard Bible
You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not honor them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore You will not honor them.

Contemporary English Version
My friends won't really listen, all because of you, and so you must be the one to prove them wrong.

Good News Translation
You have closed their minds to reason; don't let them triumph over me now.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.

International Standard Version
"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.

NET Bible
Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

New King James Version
For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.

King James 2000 Bible
For you have hidden their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.

New Heart English Bible
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

World English Bible
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

American King James Version
For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.

American Standard Version
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them .

A Faithful Version
For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not lift them up.

Darby Bible Translation
For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].

English Revised Version
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For thou hast withholden their heartes from vnderstanding, therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thou hast withholde their hertes from vnderstodinge, therfore shall they not be set vp an hye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For You have hidden their heart from understanding, "" Therefore You do not exalt them.

Young's Literal Translation
For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

Smith's Literal Translation
For thou didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt not exalt them.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You have set their heart far from discipline; therefore, they will not be praised.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore they shall be exalted in their deception

Lamsa Bible
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore they shall exalt themselves in their deception.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; Therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them.
















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