Job 11:12

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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 an 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?