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 do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
• Job 39:5–8“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
• Eccl 3:18I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
• Jer 2:24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
• Ps 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
• Jas 3:13–17Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
• Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
• Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Ps 62:9–10Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 6:5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
• 1 Cor 3:18–20Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
• Job 5:13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
• Prov 30:2–4“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.
• Job 12:2–3“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Ps 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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