Job 11:12 Cross References - CLV

¹² The hollow man shall become wise of heart Whenever the colt of an onager is born a human.

¹³ Seizing the wise in their craftiness, So that their cunning counsel is carried headlong.

⁵ Does an onager bray over verdure? Would a bull low over its fodder?

² Truly, you are the people, And with you wisdom shall die!" ³ However, I have heart understanding as well as you; I am not falling behind you; For who is there not knowing such things as these?

¹⁴ What is a mortal that he should be purged, Or that one born of a woman should be justified?

²⁸ And He said to mankind, Behold, the fear of Yahweh, it is wisdom, And to withdraw from evil is understanding.

⁵ Who has sent forth the onager free, And who has unloosed the bonds of the wild donkey, ⁶ Whose home I have constituted the steppe, And the salty wastes as his habitat? ⁷ He makes sport of the clamor of the town; He does not hear the tumults of the taskmaster. ⁸ He explores the mountains as his pasture And seeks after every green thing.

⁵ Behold, I was with depravity when I was travailed in birth, And in sin when my mother conceived me."

⁹ Common sons of Adam are only a transitory breath, Noted sons of man a lie; If brought up on the scales, They are less than a transitory breath altogether." ¹⁰ Do not trust in extortion, And in pillage, do not place vain hope; Though your estate be producing, do not set your heart on it."

²² I was irrational, and I was ignorant; I became like the beasts before You."

⁶ An irrational man, he does not know, And a stupid one, he cannot understand this:"

² Indeed I am brutish, less than a man, And human understanding is not in me." ³ I have not learned wisdom That I may know of the knowledge of the grand Holy One. ⁴ Who has ascended the heavens and descended? Who has gathered the wind in both His hands? Who has tied up the waters in a garment? Who has confirmed all the limits of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name, in case you know?

¹⁸ I said in my heart:It is on account of the sons of humanity That the One, Elohim, seeks to manifest them And to show them that they themselves are beasts."

²⁴ A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she has swallowed up wind, Her meeting--who does turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her."

²² Alleging themselves to be wise, they are made stupid,

¹⁶ being mutually disposed to one another, not being disposed to that which is high, but being led away to the humble. Do not come to pass for prudent with yourselves."

¹⁸ Let no one be deluding himself. If anyone among you is presuming to be wise in this eon, let him become stupid, that he may be becoming wise, ¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is stupidity with God. For it is written, "He is clutching the wise in their craftiness." ²⁰ And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain."

³ (among whom we also all behaved ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the comprehension, and were, in our nature, children of indignation, even as the rest),

²⁰ Now are you wanting to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is dead?

¹³ Who is wise and an adept among you? Let him show his works by an ideal behavior in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ Now if you are having bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, are you not vaunting against and falsifying the truth? ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but terrestrial, soulish, demoniacal. " ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction are, there is turbulence also, and every bad practice." ¹⁷ Now the wisdom from above is first, indeed, pure, thereupon peaceable, lenient, compliant, bulging with mercy and good fruits, undiscriminating, unfeigned."