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Job 39:17

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Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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  1. Job 35:11Rank 1 from verse 17
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    11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

  2. 2 Chronicles 32:31Rank 2 from verse 17
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    31¶ Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

  3. Deuteronomy 2:30Rank 3 from verse 17
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    30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

  4. Isaiah 19:11–14Rank 4 from verse 17
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    11¶ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

    12Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

    13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

    14The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

  5. Isaiah 57:17Rank 5 from verse 17
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    17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

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Job 39:17

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deprived

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Stripped, bereft, denied, or caused to lack something formerly possessed, expected, or otherwise available.

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wisdom

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Knowledge, understanding, judgment, skill, or prudence.

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neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

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imparted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of impart, meaning to give, share, communicate, or distribute something one has to another.

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understanding

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1. The capacity or act of perceiving, comprehending, discerning, judging, interpreting, or applying knowledge. 2. Knowledge, insight, wisdom, or prudent judgment possessed or gained. 3. Skill or ability in a work, art, subject, vision, saying, or interpretation.

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16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

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18What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

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