Job 11:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 11:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 2:20
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Job 39:5-8
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? …
James 3:13-17
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. …
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Psalms 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Conceit Depravity of Man Graces Haughtiness Heart Ignorance

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

Zophar here speaks very good things concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly: these two compared together, and duly considered, will have a powerful influence upon our submission to all the dispensations of the divine Providence. I. See here what God is, and let him be adored. 1. He is an incomprehensible Being, infinite and immense, whose nature and perf…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. vain--hollow. would be--“wants to consider himself wise”; opposed to God’s “wisdom” (see on Job 11:11); refuses to see sin, where God sees it (Ro 1:22). wild ass’s colt--a proverb for untamed wildness (Job 39:5, 8; Jr 2:24; Ge 16:12; Hebrew, “a wild-ass man”). Man wishes to appear wisely obedient to his Lord, whereas he is, from his birth, unsubdued in spirit.