Job 11:12 - Tree of Life Version

But a witless man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But a stupid man will get wisdom [only] when a wild donkey's colt is born a man [as when he thinks himself free because he is lifted up in pride].

American Standard Version (1901)

But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.

Common English Bible

A stupid person becomes intelligent when a wild ass of a person is born tame.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass's colt.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

Job 11:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:14

“What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could 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

Who catches the clever in their craftiness, and thwarts the plan of the cunning.

Job 6:5

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass or an ox bellow over his fodder?

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:11

Remove Your scourge from me. I perish by the blow of Your hand.

Psalm 39:5

“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.

Psalm 51:5

For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant. I was like a beast before You.

Psalm 92:6

How great are Your works, Adonai! How profound are Your thoughts!

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Futile! Futile! says Kohelet. Completely meaningless! Everything is futile!

Ecclesiastes 11:10

So banish anxiety from your heart and cast off distress from your body, for youth and prime of life are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I also said in my heart, “As for the sons of man, God tests them so that they may see that they are but animals.”

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey used to the wilderness— sniffing the wind in her passion— in her heat, who can restrain her? All males that pursue her will not tire themselves. At mating time 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 proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own eyes.

Ephesians 2:3

We too all lived among them in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind. By nature we were children of wrath, just like the others.

James 2:20

But do you want to know, you empty person, that faith without works is dead?