Job 11:12
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
In Context
11For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;
13If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Cross References
Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 39:5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
Psalms 62:9Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than vanity.
Psalms 92:6A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.
Matthew Henry on Job 11:8-13
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Zophar here speaks very good… Read the whole commentary →