Job 11:12
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
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Job 11:12
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
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Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Job 12:20
He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
Proverbs 23:4
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Ecclesiastes 12:12
Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
1 Corinthians 4:6
Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2:23
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.
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Genesis 22:5
Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”
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Exodus 13:13
Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
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Deuteronomy 1:22
You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
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Deuteronomy 30:11
For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.
Deuteronomy 30:12
It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
Deuteronomy 30:13
Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
Deuteronomy 30:14
But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
Proverbs 30:3
I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Romans 11:33
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
1 Timothy 6:16
He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
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Job 6:24
“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Job 8:8
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
Job 8:10
Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 11:2
“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 11:6
that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
Job 15:2
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Job 17:4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
Job 20:3
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 32:7
I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Job 32:9
It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
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Job 11:13
“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
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Job 11:15
Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,
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Job 13:23
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
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Job 12:12
With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Job 32:10
Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’
Job 32:11
“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
Job 32:12
Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
Job 32:13
Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’
Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Psalms 8:4
what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
Psalms 62:9
Surely 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.
Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
Psalms 146:3
Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
Jeremiah 17:5
Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
Hosea 7:11
“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
Matthew 23:8
But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
Matthew 23:9
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
Matthew 23:10
Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.
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Proverbs 1:4
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man—
Proverbs 14:18
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
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Proverbs 12:8
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
Proverbs 18:3
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
Titus 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
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Song of Solomon 4:9
You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
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Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
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Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:12
But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Psalms 49:13
This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 92:6
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
Proverbs 3:7
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
Isaiah 29:18
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
1 Corinthians 15:36
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
1 Timothy 1:6
from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
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Job 31:37
I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.
Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Psalms 73:22
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
Jeremiah 8:8
“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
1 Corinthians 1:21
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:25
because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
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Jeremiah 52:21
As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.
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Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Isaiah 32:14
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
Daniel 5:21
He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
Daniel 5:31
Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.
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Hosea 2:6
Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
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Matthew 3:9
Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Matthew 23:28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Romans 2:17
Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
Romans 2:18
know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Romans 2:20
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
Romans 2:22
You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
Romans 2:25
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 2:29
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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Romans 2:26
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Romans 2:27
Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
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Job 22:13
You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Psalms 73:11
They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Psalms 94:9
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
Psalms 94:10
He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
Song of Solomon 2:11
For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
Ezekiel 37:3
He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’
John 9:10
They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
Romans 4:17
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
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Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Psalms 58:3
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Ecclesiastes 11:5
As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
John 3:5
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7
Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’
John 3:9
Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
John 3:10
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Ephesians 2:3
We also all once lived among them 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.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
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2 Chronicles 25:19
You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you and Judah with you?’ ”
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
Isaiah 14:13
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Isaiah 14:14
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
Isaiah 14:15
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
Ezekiel 31:10
“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height,
Ezekiel 31:14
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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