Job 11:12

Zophar says a senseless man can no more gain wisdom than a wild donkey can be born tame. He implies Job is stubbornly foolish.

Cross-references · 19

• Jas 2:20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
• Job 39:5–8Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
• Eccl 3:18I 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.
• Jer 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
• Ps 73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
• Jas 3:13–17Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
• Job 28:28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
• Eph 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Ps 62:9–10Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
• 1 Cor 3:18–20Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• Job 5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
• Prov 30:2–4Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
• Job 12:2–3No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Ps 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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