Job 11:12
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Note Or can be born tame
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
Note vain: Heb. empty
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- For vain
- Heb. For empty.
- Psalm 62:9, 10; Psalm 73:22; Psalm 92:6; Ecclesiastes 3:18; Romans 1:22; James 2:20
- would
- Job 5:13; Job 12:2, 3; Job 28:28; Proverbs 30:2–4; Romans 12:16; 1 Corinthians 3:18–20; James 3:13–17
- man be
- Job 15:14; Psalm 51:5; Ephesians 2:3
- a wild
- Job 6:5; Job 39:5–8; Jeremiah 2:24