Job 11:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But the stupid will get understanding when a wild ass is born human.

Cross References

Job 15:14

What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?

Job 28:28

And he said to humankind, ‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Job 6:5

Does the wild ass bray over its grass or the ox low over its fodder?

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you.

Psalm 92:6

The dullard cannot know; the stupid cannot understand this:

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said to myself with regard to humans that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass at home in the wilderness in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be arrogant, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?