job 11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

job 11:12 "And an idiot will become intelligent When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

12. vain--hollow.
would be--"wants to consider himself wise"; opposed to God's "wisdom" (see on Job 11:11); refuses to see sin, where God sees it (Ro 1:22).
wild ass's colt--a proverb for untamed wildness (Job 39:5, 8; Jer 2:24; Ge 16:12; Hebrew, "a wild-ass man"). Man wishes to appear wisely obedient to his Lord, whereas he is, from his birth, unsubdued in spirit.

job 11:12 "And an idiot will become intelligent When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

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