Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 11:12

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 11:12 - 11:12

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 11:12 - 11:12

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11:1 - 11:1
11:2 - 11:2
11:3 - 11:3
11:4 - 11:4
11:6 - 11:6
11:7 - 11:7
11:8 - 11:8
11:10 - 11:10
11:11 - 11:11
11:12 - 11:12
11:13 - 11:13
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11:15 - 11:15
11:16 - 11:16
11:17 - 11:17
11:18 - 11:18
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11:20 - 11:20

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 (Rom 1:22).

wild ass’s colt - a proverb for untamed wildness (Job 39:5, Job 39:8; Jer 2:24; Gen 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.