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Job 11:12

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For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?	For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt.	If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

For vain^H5014 man^H376 would be wise^H3823, though man^H120 be born^H3205 like a wild ass's^H6501 colt^H5895.

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Original Hebrew

וְאִישׁ נָבוּב יִלָּבֵב וְעַיִר פֶּרֶא אָדָם יִוָּלֵד׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/אִ֣ישׁ	ve./'Ish	H376	HC/Ncmsa	and/ a person
נָ֭בוּב	Na.vuv	H5014	HVqsmsa	hollow
יִלָּבֵ֑ב	yi.la.Vev	H3823	HVNi3ms	he will become intelligent
וְ/עַ֥יִר	ve./'A.yir	H5895	HC/Ncmsc	and/ a male donkey of
פֶּ֝֗רֶא	Pe.re'	H6501	HNcmsa	a wild donkey
אָדָ֥ם	'a.Dam	H120	HNcmsa	a human being
יִוָּלֵֽד	yi.va.Led	H3205	HVNi3ms	it will be born

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H120 — אָדָם (ʼâdâm, aw-dawm'): from אָדַם; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.); [idiom] another, [phrase] hypocrite, [phrase] common sort, [idiom] low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
• H376 — אִישׁ (ʼîysh, eesh): contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation); also, another, any (man), a certain, [phrase] champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), [phrase] none, one, people, person, [phrase] steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare אִשָּׁה.
• H3205 — יָלַד (yâlad, yaw-lad'): a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage; bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
• H3823 — לָבַב (lâbab, law-bab'): a primitive root; properly, to be enclosed (as if with fat); by implication (as denominative from לֵבָב); to unheart; also as denominative from לָבִיבָה i.e.; (in a good sense) transport (with love), or (in a bad sense) stultify; to make cakes; make cakes, ravish, be wise.
• H5014 — נָבַב (nâbab, naw-bab'): a primitive root; to pierce; to be hollow, or (figuratively) foolish; hollow, vain.
• H5895 — עַיִר (ʻayir, ah'-yeer): from עוּר in the sense of raising (i.e. bearing a burden); properly, a young ass (as just broken to a load); hence an ass-colt; (ass) colt, foal, young ass.
• H6501 — פֶּרֶא (pereʼ, peh'-reh): or פֶּרֶה; (Jeremiah 2:24), from פָּרָא in the secondary sense of running wild; the onager; wild (ass).

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• a wild — Job 6:5, Job 39:5-8, Jeremiah 2:24
• For vain — Psalms 62:9-10, Psalms 73:22, Psalms 92:6, Ecclesiastes 3:18, Romans 1:22, James 2:20
• man be — Job 15:14, Psalms 51:5, Ephesians 2:3
• would — Job 5:13, Job 12:2-3, Job 28:28, Proverbs 30:2-4, Romans 12:16, 1 Corinthians 3:18-20, James 3:13-17

Reciprocal references (10): Genesis 16:12, Job 30:7, Psalms 94:11, Ecclesiastes 7:16, Isaiah 5:21, Jeremiah 8:8, Ezekiel 31:10, 1 Corinthians 3:20, 1 Corinthians 4:6, 1 Corinthians 15:35

Related Topics

• Torrey’s: ASS, THE WILD, WICKED, THE, ARE COMPARED TO
• Nave’s: DEPRAVITY OF MAN, IGNORANCE, PRIDE, SARCASM, VANITY, WICKED (PEOPLE), WISDOM

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