Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding? New Living Translation Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind? English Standard Version Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind? Berean Standard Bible Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind? King James Bible Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? New King James Version Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart? New American Standard Bible “Who has put wisdom in the innermost being, Or given understanding to the mind? NASB 1995 “Who has put wisdom in the innermost being Or given understanding to the mind? NASB 1977 “Who has put wisdom in the innermost being, Or has given understanding to the mind? Legacy Standard Bible Who has given wisdom in the innermost being Or given understanding to the mind? Amplified Bible “Who has put wisdom in the innermost being [of man, or in the layers of clouds] Or given understanding to the mind [of man, or to the heavenly display]? Christian Standard Bible Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind understanding? Holman Christian Standard Bible Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind understanding? American Standard Version Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind? Aramaic Bible in Plain English Who set wisdom in a hiding place, or who gave vision to discernment? Brenton Septuagint Translation And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? Contemporary English Version Did you teach birds to know that rain or floods are on their way? Douay-Rheims Bible Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding? English Revised Version Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind? GOD'S WORD® Translation Who put wisdom in the heart or gave understanding to the mind? Good News Translation Who tells the ibis when the Nile will flood, or who tells the rooster that rain will fall? International Standard Version "Who sets wisdom within you, or imbues your mind with understanding? JPS Tanakh 1917 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind? Literal Standard Version Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part? Majority Standard Bible Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind? New American Bible Who gives wisdom to the ibis, and gives the rooster understanding? NET Bible Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind? New Revised Standard Version Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, or given understanding to the mind? New Heart English Bible Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? Webster's Bible Translation Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? World English Bible Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? Young's Literal Translation Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God Challenges Job…35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’? 36Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind? 37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens… Cross References Job 9:4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered? Job 12:13 Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His. Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. Psalm 51:6 Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Ecclesiastes 2:26 To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. Treasury of Scripture Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart? Who hath put Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Psalm 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. who hath given Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, Exodus 36:1,2 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded… Isaiah 28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. Jump to Previous Clouds Covered Endowed Heart High Innermost Inward Lights Mind Mists North Part Parts Understanding WisdomJump to Next Clouds Covered Endowed Heart High Innermost Inward Lights Mind Mists North Part Parts Understanding WisdomJob 38 1. God challenges Job to answer4. God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance 31. and weakness (36) Wisdom in the inward parts.--The mention of the inward parts and the heart here, in the midst of natural phenomena, perplexes every one; but it is a natural solution to refer them to the lightnings personified: "Who hath put such understanding in their inward parts?"Verse 36. - Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Some refer this to human wisdom, and understand the Almighty as asking - Who has put man's wisdom into his inward parts? literally, into his kidneys, or as our idiom would express it, "into his heart." But there is great difficulty in supposing a sudden transition from clouds and lightning in vers. 34, 35 to the human understanding in ver. 36, with a return to clouds and rain in ver. 37. Hence many of the best critics understand ver. 36 of the purpose and intelligence that may be regarded as existing in the clouds and rain and lightning themselves, which are God's ministers, and run to and fro at his command, and execute his pleasure. (So Schultens, Rosenmuller, Professor Lee, and Professer Stanley Leathes.) To obtain this result, we must translate the word טוּחות By "tempest" or "thunder-belts," and the word שׂכוי, in the next clause, by "storm n or something similar (see the Revised Version, where "dark clouds" is suggested as an alternative for "inward parts'" and "meteor" as an alternative for "heart"). The whole passage will then run thus: Who hath put wisdom in the thunderbolts? or who hath given understanding to the tempest? Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Whoמִי־ (mî·šā-) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix has put שָׁ֭ת (ṯ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7896: To put, set wisdom חָכְמָ֑ה (ḥāḵ·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2451: Wisdom in the heart בַּטֻּח֣וֹת (baṭ·ṭu·ḥō·wṯ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 2910: The kidneys, the inmost thought or א֤וֹ (’ōw) Conjunction Strong's 176: Desire, if given נָתַ֖ן (nā·ṯan) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set understanding בִינָֽה׃ (ḇî·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 998: An understanding to the mind? לַשֶּׂ֣כְוִי (laś·śeḵ·wî) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7907: Perhaps appearance, phenomenon Links Job 38:36 NIVJob 38:36 NLT Job 38:36 ESV Job 38:36 NASB Job 38:36 KJV Job 38:36 BibleApps.com Job 38:36 Biblia Paralela Job 38:36 Chinese Bible Job 38:36 French Bible Job 38:36 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward (Jb) |
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