Job 11:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹² An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For vain man would be wise, Though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² 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)

¹² But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.

Common English Bible

¹² A stupid person becomes intelligent when a wild ass of a person is born tame.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass's colt.

Job 11:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? What is 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. To depart from evil is understanding.'*

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Job 6:5

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

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 39:11

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.* Selah.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.* Selah.

Psalm 51:5

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

Psalm 73:22

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Psalm 92:6

A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

Ecclesiastes 1:2

*Vanity of vanities,* says Kohelet; *Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.*

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart, *As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

Ephesians 2:3

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

James 2:20

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?