Job 11:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself 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 handbreadths; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate 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 brutish 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 youth and the prime of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in mine heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; 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. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

James 2:20

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?