| Job 11:12 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "An idiot will become intelligent When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | But an empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born tame.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. |
| ASV: | But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt. |
| BBE: | And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching. |
| DBY: | Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass. |
| ERV: | But vain man is void of understanding, yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt. |
| JPS: | But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man. |
| WBS: | For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt. |
| WEB: | An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt. |
| YLT: | And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born. |
| Job 11:12 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 39:5 "Who sent out the wild donkey free? And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
Psalm 39:5 "Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.
Psalm 39:11 "With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.
Psalm 62:9 Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up; They are together lighter than breath.
Psalm 144:4 Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 1:2 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 11:10 So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild {f} ass's colt.
(f) That is, without understanding, so that whatever gifts he has afterward come from God, and not from nature. |
| WES: | 11:12 Man - That since the fall is void of all true wisdom, pretends to be wise, and able to pass a censure upon all God's ways and works. Colt - Ignorant, and dull, and stupid, as to divine things, and yet heady and untractable. |
| MHC: | 11:7-12 Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he would be wise, would be thought so, though he is born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited. He would be wise, would be thought so, though he will not submit to the laws of wisdom. He would be wise, he reaches after forbidden wisdom, and, like his first parents, aiming to be wise above what is written, loses the tree of life for the tree of knowledge. Is such a creature as this fit to contend with God? |
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