Job 11:12

New English Translation

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.

Cross References

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 28:28

And he said to mankind, ‘The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

Job 5:13

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

Job 6:5

“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?

Psalm 144:4

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

Psalm 39:11

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Psalm 39:5

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Psalm 73:22

I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

Psalm 92:6

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

Romans 1:22

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

James 2:20

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?