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Job 11:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For ηvain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

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empty.

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For vain.

Heb. For empty.

Psa. 62:9‑10• ⁹Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.
¹⁰Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it. (Psa. 62:9‑10)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Psa. 92:6• ⁶A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it. (Psa. 92:6)

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Eccl. 3:18• ¹⁸I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts. (Eccl. 3:18)

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Rom. 1:22• ²²professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (Rom. 1:22)

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James 2:20• ²⁰But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? (James 2:20)

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Job 5:13• ¹³He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong: (Job 5:13)

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Job 12:2‑3• ²Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!
³I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these? (Job 12:2‑3)

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Job 28:28• ²⁸And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. (Job 28:28)

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Prov. 30:2‑4• ²Truly *I* am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.
³I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.
⁴Who hath ascended up into the heavens, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a mantle? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest? (Prov. 30:2‑4)

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Rom. 12:16• ¹⁶Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes: (Rom. 12:16)

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1 Cor. 3:18‑20• ¹⁸Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.
¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.
²⁰And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain. (1 Cor. 3:18‑20)

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James 3:13‑17• ¹³Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing.
¹⁷But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned. (James 3:13‑17)

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Job 15:14• ¹⁴What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14)

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Psa. 51:5• ⁵Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psa. 51:5)

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Eph. 2:3• ³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest: (Eph. 2:3)

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Job 6:5• ⁵Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder? (Job 6:5)

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Job 39:5‑8• ⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
⁶Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
⁷He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
⁸The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Job 39:5‑8)

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Jer. 2:24• ²⁴--a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. (Jer. 2:24)

• He knows the empty vanity of the natural man’s heart, who by birth is as a wild ass’s colt, and needs to be born again if any true knowledge of God is to be had. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Yet a senselessc man will make bold, though man be born liked the foal of a wild ass.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "empty."

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Others read "Man is stupid, he is senseless, man is born like."