Job 17:4

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

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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 i...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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, an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The friends are too prejudiced against Job to speak on his behalf. Not exalt them ] i.e. not let their views triumph.
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...
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 onl...
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...
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 eye...
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...
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 ] Th...
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 t...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520....
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; th...
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 de...
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 r...
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 occupi...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of his Weakness
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding, his friends were so short-sighted and narrow-minded that they were prevented from seeing and acknow...
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
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 ove...

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Related Commentaries of Job 17:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 17:4