Job 11:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

Cross References

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Job 28:28

And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

Job 6:5

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 39:11

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 51:5

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Psalm 73:22

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Psalm 92:6

A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

Jeremiah 2:24

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

Romans 1:22

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

Romans 12:16

Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

James 2:20

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?