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Job 17:4 KJV
Job · chapter 17 · verse 4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.Job 17:4 · King James Version
Job 17:4 in context
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads: - I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9