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Job 39:17
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For God has deprived her of wisdom;he has not endowed her with understanding.
Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
because God did not give the ostrich wisdom; God did not give it a share of good sense.
For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.
For God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding.
Because God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding.
Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Because God has made her forget wisdom,And has not given her a share of understanding.
For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
I myself made her foolish and without common sense.
because God has deprived it of wisdom and given it no share in understanding.
For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
That's because I did not give wisdom to the ostrich. She is foolish, and I made her that way.
God has increased wisdom, but he has not given her a portion of it.
It was I who made her foolish and did not give her wisdom.
because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.
because God has made her forget wisdom; and He has not given to her a share in understanding.
And that because God hath taken wisdome from him, & hath not geuen him vnderstondinge.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding.
Because God hath depriued her of wisedome, neither hath he imparted to her vnderstanding.
And that because God hath taken wysdome from her, & hath not geuen her vnderstanding.
For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
For God hath priued hym fro wisdom, and `yaf not vnderstondyng to hym.
Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Because God hath withheld wisdom from her, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Because God deprived her of wisdom, And did not endow her with understanding.
For God has deprived her of wisdom. He has given her no understanding.
Because God has not given her wisdom or her share of understanding.
because God has made it forget wisdom, and given it no share in understanding.
For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.
because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
Because God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 17:4, Job 35:11, Deuteronomy 2:30, 2 Chronicles 32:31, Isaiah 19:11-14, Isaiah 57:17, James 1:17
Reciprocal: Job 12:20 - taketh Psalms 119:19 - hide Isaiah 28:26 - For his God Isaiah 30:28 - causing
Cross-References
And the Lorde was with Ioseph, and he was a man that prospered and was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
So Ioseph founde fauour in his sight, and serued him: and he made him ruler of his house, and put all that he had in his hand.
There is no ma greater in this house then I: neither hath he kept any thing from me, but only thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickednes & so sinne against God?
Nowe when she sawe that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled out,
She called vnto the men of her house, and tolde them, saying, Beholde, he hath brought in an Ebrewe vnto vs to mocke vs: who came in to me for to haue slept with me: but I cryed with a loude voyce.
Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a false witnes.
And when Ahab saw Eliiah, Ahab said vnto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.
For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom,.... Or "made her to forget" d what she had; an instance of her forgetfulness is mentioned
Job 39:15; and so Leo Africanus e says of it, that it is of a very short memory, and presently forgets the place where its eggs are laid;
neither hath he imparted to her understanding; many instances are given of its stupidity by historians, as that it will take anything that is offered to it to eat, stones, iron, c. f that it will thrust its head and neck into a thicket, fancying: it is hid and covered, and that none can see it; which Pliny g remarks as an instance of its foolishness; though Diodorus Siculus h takes this to be a point of prudence, for the preservation of those parts of it which are weakest. Strabo gives i another instance of its stupidity, its being so easily deceived by sportsmen, who, by putting the skin of an ostrich on their hands, and reaching out fruits or seeds to it, it will receive them of them, and be taken. Others observe the smallness of their heads, and so of their brains, as an argument of their want of understanding; and it has been remarked, as a proof of their having but few brains, that Heliogabalus, the Roman emperor, had six hundred heads of ostriches dressed at once for his supper, for the sake of their brains k.
d השה "oblivisci fecit eum", Montanus, Mercerus, Drusius, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. e Ut supra. (Desciptio. Africae, l. 9. p. 766.) f Aelian. ut supra. (de Animal. l. 5. c. 21.) Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 1. g Ibid. (Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 1.) h Ut supra. (Diodor. Sicul. Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 133.) i Geograph. l. 16. p. 531. k Lamprid. Vit. Heliogab. c. 20, 30.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom ... - That is, he has not imparted to her the wisdom which has been conferred on other animals. The meaning is, that all this remarkable arrangement, which distinguished the ostrich so much from other animals was to be traced to God. It was not the result of chance; it could not be pretended that it was by a human arrangement, but it was the result of divine appointment. Even in this apparent destitution of wisdom, there were reasons which had led to this appointment, and the care and good providence of God could be seen in the preservation of the animal. Particularly, though apparently so weak, and timid, and unwise, the ostrich had a noble hearing Job 39:18, and when aroused, would scorn the fleetest horse in the pursuit, and show that she was distinguished for properties that were expressive of the goodness of God toward her, and of his care over her.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 39:17. God hath deprived her of wisdom — Of this foolishness we have an account from the ancients; and here follow two instances:
"1. It covers its head in the reeds, and thinks itself all out of sight because itself cannot see. So Claudian: -
____________ 'Stat lumine clauso
Ridendum revoluta caput: creditque latere
Quad non ipsa videt.'
"2. They who hunt them draw the skin of an ostrich's neck on one hand, which proves a sufficient lure to take them with the other. They have so little brain that Heliogabalus had six hundred heads for his supper. Here we may observe, that our judicious as well as sublime author just touches the great points of distinction in each creature, and then hastens to another. A description is exact when you cannot add but what is common to another thing; nor withdraw, but something peculiarly belonging to the thing described. A likeness is lost in too much description, as a meaning is often in too much illustration." - Dr. YOUNG.
