Job 11:12

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Summary

Job 11:12

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

For vain

Would

James 3:13

Man be

Job 15:14

Psalm 51:5

Ephesians 2:3

A wild

Job 6:5

Job 39:5

Jeremiah 2:24

General references

Psalm 94:11

Bible References

For vain

Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?

Would

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

Verily that ye are the people, and shall wisdom die with you?

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom.

Man be

What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?

Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

A wild

Shall the wild ass bray at grass? if the ox will low over his provender?

Who sent the wild ass free? and who opened the bonds of the wild ass?

A wild ass accustomed to the desert in gratifying her soul, panting after the wind in her heat; who shall turn her back? all seeking her will not be wearied; in her new moon they shall find her.

General references

Jehovah knew the thoughts of man that they are vanity.