Genesis 16:12

New Living Translation

This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives.”

Cross References

Genesis 21:20

And God was with the boy as he grew up in the wilderness. He became a skillful archer,

Genesis 25:18

Ishmael’s descendants occupied the region from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt in the direction of Asshur. There they lived in open hostility toward all their relatives.

Genesis 27:40

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. But when you decide to break free, you will shake his yoke from your neck.”

Genesis 37:25

Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.

Job 11:12

An empty-headed person won’t become wise any more than a wild donkey can bear a human child.

Job 24:5

Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children.