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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• ⁹Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
¹⁰Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. (Psa. 62:9‑10)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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

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Eccl. 3:18• ¹⁸I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are 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 froward is carried headlong. (Job 5:13)

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Job 12:2‑3• ²No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
³But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? (Job 12:2‑3)

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Job 28:28• ²⁸And unto man he said, Behold, 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• ²Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
³I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
⁴Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? (Prov. 30:2‑4)

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Rom. 12:16• ¹⁶Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. (Rom. 12:16)

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1 Cor. 3:18‑20• ¹⁸Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
²⁰And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. (1 Cor. 3:18‑20)

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James 3:13‑17• ¹³Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. (James 3:13‑17)

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

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

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Eph. 2:3• ³Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (Eph. 2:3)

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Job 6:5• ⁵Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? (Job 6:5)

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Job 39:5‑8• ⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
⁶Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
⁷He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying 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• ²⁴A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can 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."