Job 17:4

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Porque ao seu corao encobriste o entendimento, pelo que no os exaltars.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Porque aos seus coraes encobriste o entendimento, por isso no os exaltars.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Porque ao seu corao encobriste o entendimento, pelo que no os exaltars.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 17:14, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Isaiah 19:14, Matthew 11:25, Matthew 13:11, Romans 11:8, 1 Corinthians 1:20

Reciprocal: Job 12:2 - ye are the people Job 12:20 - taketh Job 12:24 - He taketh Job 17:10 - for I Job 18:3 - Wherefore Job 39:17 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding,.... That is, the hearts of his friends, and therefore they were unfit to undertake his cause, or be sureties for him, or be judges in it. It is the same thing as to hide understanding from their hearts, which God sometimes does in a natural sense; when men like not the knowledge of him, as attainable by the light of nature, he gives them up to reprobate minds, minds void of knowledge and judgment in things natural; and sometimes, in a spiritual sense, he hides men's hearts from the knowledge of things divine and evangelical, and even this he does from the wise and prudent of this world; yea, sometimes he hides the knowledge of his providential dealings with men from his own people, as he did from Asaph, Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and others; and, as it seems, from Job's friends, who therefore mistook his case, and were very unfit and insufficient to determine it:

therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]; to such honour and dignity, to be umpires, arbitrators, or judges in the case of Job; this God had reserved for another, Elihu, or rather himself, who decided the controversy between Job and his friends, and declared in his favour, and that they had not spoken the thing that was right of him, as his servant Job had done, Job 42:7;

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding - That is, the heart of his professed friends. Job says that they were blind and perverse, and indisposed to render him justice; and he therefore pleads that he may carry his cause directly before God. He attributes their want of understanding to the agency of God in accordance with the doctrine which prevailed in early times, and which is so often expressed in the Scriptures, that God is the source of light and truth, and that when people are blinded it is in accordance with his wise purposes; see Isaiah 6:9-10. It is “because” they were thus blind and perverse, that he asks the privilege of carrying the cause at once up to God - and who could blame him for such a desire?

Therefore thou shalt not exalt them - By the honor of deciding a case like this, or by the reputation of wisdom. The name of sage or “wise” man was among the most valued in those times; but Job says that that would not be awarded to his friends. God would not exalt or honor people thus devoid of wisdom.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 17:4. For thou hast hid their heart — This address is to God; and here he is represented as doing that which in the course of his providence he only permits to be done.

Shalt thou not exalt them. — This was exactly fulfilled: not one of Job's friends was exalted; on the contrary, God condemned the whole; and they were not received into the Divine favour till Job sacrificed, and made intercession for them.