Job 17:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. ”

• Job 17:4 - Albert 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...

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• Job 17:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For thou hast hid their heart from (e) understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]. (e) That these my afflictions are your just judgments, though man does not know the reason.

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• Job 17:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...

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• Job 17:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them . For thou hast hid their heart - This address is to God; and here he is represented as doing that which in the...

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• Job 17:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. Hid - withheld. Their heart - the intellect of his friends. Shalt ... exalt - rather, imperative,...

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• Job 17:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...

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• Job 17:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Their heart. — i.e., the heart of his friends.

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• Job 17:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 17:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...

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• Job 17:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...

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• Job 17:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me...

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• Job 17:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

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• Job 17:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]. Ver. 4. Thou hast hid their heart from understanding ] That is, thou hast hidden understanding from their h...

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• Job 17:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou hast hid their heart from understanding Rather, thou hast hid understanding from their heart. The minds of my friends are so blinded, that they cannot see those truths which are most plain a...

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• Job 17:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...

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• Job 17:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520.       1 My breath...

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• Job 17:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou hast blinded the minds of my friends, that they can not see those truths which are most plain and evident to all men of sense and experience; therefore I desire a more wise and able judge. Ther...

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• Job 17:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...

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• Job 17:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...

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• Job 17:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...

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• Job 17:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of his Weakness

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• Job 17:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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• Job 17:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hid — Thou hast blinded the minds of my friends: therefore I desire a more wise and able judge. Therefore — Thou wilt not give them the victory over me in this contest, but wilt make them ashamed o...

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