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Job 9:4 Strong Concordance He is wise [02450] in heart [03824], and mighty [0533] in strength [03581]: who hath hardened [07185] himself against him, and hath prospered [07999]?
  King James He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
wise in heart--in understanding!--and mighty in power! God confounds the ablest arguer by His wisdom, and the mightiest by His power.

hardened himself--or his neck (Pro 29:1); that is, defied God. To prosper, one must fall in with God's arrangements of providence and grace.
 
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1 He [0376], that being often reproved [08433] hardeneth [07185] his neck [06203], shall suddenly [06621] be destroyed [07665], and that without remedy [04832].