Job 11:12

Modern English Version

For an empty-headed man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.

Cross References

Job 15:14

“What is man that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 28:28

To man He said: ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Job 5:13

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the scheme of the shrewd is swiftly stopped.

Job 6:5

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox bellow over his fodder?

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

When with rebukes You correct man for sin, You consume like a moth what is precious to him; surely every man is mere vapor.   Selah

Psalm 39:5

Behold, You have made my days as a few handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man at his best is as a mere breath.”    Selah

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalm 73:22

I was foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man does not know, nor does a fool understand this:

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Vanity of vanities,” says Qoheleth, “vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Remove anxiety from your heart, and put away distress from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

Then I thought in my heart, “Regarding the account of people, God is testing them to show that they are but animals.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey used to the wilderness that sniffs the wind in her passion. In the time of her heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Do not pretend to be wiser than you are.

Ephesians 2:3

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

James 2:20

But do you want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?