Job 11:12 Cross References - LITV

¹² For foolish man takes heart, and man is born a wild ass's colt.

¹³ He takes the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the wily ones is hastened.

⁵ Does the wild ass bray over tender grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

² For truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. ³ I also have a heart as well as you; I do not fall short of you. And with whom are not things like these?

¹⁴ What is man that he should be clean? And he born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

²⁸ And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to turn from evil is understanding.

⁵ Who has sent out the wild ass free, or who has untied the bands of the wild ass? ⁶ To whom I have assigned the desert for his home, and the salt land for his dwellings? ⁷ He laughs at the turmoil of the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts; ⁸ he seeks out mountains for his pasture; and he searches after every green thing.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

⁹ Surely the sons of men are vanity, the sons of man are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are higher than vanity together. ¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and do not be vain in robbery; if riches increase to you, do not set your heart on them.

²² And I was brutish and did not know; I was like animals with You.

⁶ An animal-like man does not know; a fool does not understand this.

² Surely I am more brutish than anyone, and I do not have the understanding of a man. ³ I have not learned wisdom, but I do know the knowledge of holiness. ⁴ Who has gone up to Heaven, and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in His garments? Who has made all the ends of the earth to rise? What is His name, and what is His Son's name? Surely you know.

¹⁸ I said in my heart concerning the issue of the sons of men, that God may test them and see that they by themselves are beasts.

²⁴ a wild ass used to the wilderness. In the passion of her desire she snuffs up the wind in her time. Who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.

²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish

¹⁶ minding the same thing toward one another, not minding high things, but yielding to the lowly. Do not become wise within yourselves.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself, if anyone thinks to be wise among you in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He takes the wise in their own craftiness." Job 5:13 ²⁰ And again, " The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are worthless." LXX-Psa. 93:11; MT-Psa. 94:11

³ among whom we also all conducted ourselves in times past in the lusts of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and of the understandings, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the rest.

²⁰ But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

¹³ Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good behavior, in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, beastly, devilish. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and contention are, there is confusion and every foul deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is firstly truly pure, then peaceable, forbearing, yielding, full of mercy and of good fruits, not partial and not pretended.