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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• ⁹Only a breath [are] lowborn men,{HR}A lie are highborn men;{HR}In a balance they go up less than a breath together.
¹⁰Confide not in oppression,{HR}And in robbery be not vain;{HR}If riches increase,{HR}Set not [your] heart [on them]. (Psa. 62:9‑10)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²And I [was] brutish and knew nothing:{HR}A beast I was with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Psa. 92:6• ⁶A brutish man knoweth not,{HR}And a fool doth not understand this. (Psa. 92:6)

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Eccl. 3:18• ¹⁸I said in mine heart,{HR}It is because of the sons of men that God may prove them,{HR}And that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts. (Eccl. 3:18)

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

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James 2:20• ²⁰But art thou willing to learn, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? (James 2:20)

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Job 5:13• ¹³He taketh the wise in their craftiness,{HR}And the counsel of the cunning is overturned. (Job 5:13)

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Job 12:2‑3• ²Truly ye [are] the people,{HR}And wisdom shall die with you.
³But I have a heart as well as you,{HR}I do not sink beneath you:{HR}And with whom [are] not such things as these? (Job 12:2‑3)

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Job 28:28• ²⁸And unto man he said,{HR}Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom,{HR}And to depart from evil understanding. (Job 28:28)

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

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Rom. 12:16• ¹⁶Be of the same mind one toward another, not minding high things, but consorting with the lowly. Be not wise in your own eyes: (Rom. 12:16)

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1 Cor. 3:18‑20• ¹⁸Let none deceive himself; if anyone thinketh himself to be wise among you in this age, let him become foolish that he may be wise.
¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;
²⁰and again, [The] Lord knoweth 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 show out of his good conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.
¹⁴But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal.
¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed.
¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, uncontentious, impartial. (James 3:13‑17)

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Job 15:14• ¹⁴What [is] man that he should be clean,{HR}And one born of woman that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14)

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Psa. 51:5• ⁵Behold, in iniquity was I born,{HR}And in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psa. 51:5)

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Eph. 2:3• ³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, 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 fresh grass?{HR}Doth an ox low over his fodder? (Job 6:5)

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Job 39:5‑8• ⁵Who sent forth the wild ass free,{HR}And who loosed the bands of the fleeing one?
⁶Whose house I made the desert, and his abode the salt land.
⁷He laugheth at the tumult of the city,{HR}The cries of the driver he heareth not,
⁸The range of mountains [is] his pasture,{HR}And he seeketh after every green thing. (Job 39:5‑8)

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Jer. 2:24• ²⁴{i}—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.{/i} (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."

W. Kelly Translation

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But empty man would be wise,{HR}Yet is man born a wild ass’s colt.