Job 11:12

In 11 translations

BSB

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!Or can be born tame

KJV

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.vain: Heb. empty

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And empty man is bold, || And man is born [as] the colt of a wild donkey.

YLT

And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

DBY

Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.

DRC

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

GNV

Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.

JPS

But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

LXXE

But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman is like an ass of the desert.

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WLC

וְאִ֣ישׁ נָ֭בוּב יִלָּבֵ֑ב וְעַ֥יִר פֶּ֝֗רֶא אָדָ֥ם יִוָּלֵֽד׃

LXX-Br

Ἄνθρωπος δὲ ἄλλως νήχεται λόγοις· βροτὸς δὲ γεννητὸς γυναικὸς, ἶσα ὄνῳ ἐρημίτῃ.

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• James 2:20O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
• Job 39:5–8Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness? I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling. He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver. He…
• Ecclesiastes 3:18I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
• Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
• Psalms 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
• James 3:13–17Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in…
• Job 6:5Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
• Romans 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.
• Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Job 12:2–3“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die! But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
• 1 Corinthians 3:18–20Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches…
• Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• Proverbs 30:2–4Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One. Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in…
• Job 28:28And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
• Psalms 92:6A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

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