Job 11:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹² For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For vain man would be wise, Though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But a stupid man will get wisdom [only] when a wild donkey's colt is born a man [as when he thinks himself free because he is lifted up in pride].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.

Common English Bible

¹² A stupid person becomes intelligent when a wild ass of a person is born tame.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass's colt.

Job 11:12 Cross References

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 28:28

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 39:11

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I 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.

Jeremiah 2:24

a 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.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 12:16

Be 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.

Ephesians 2:3

among 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.

James 2:20

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?