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Job 11:12

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 11:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt; rather, and a vain man may get understanding, and the colt of a wild ass become a than. Zophar seems to mean that, through Divine discipline, such as that described in , a vain, foolish, puffed-up man may be reclaimed and become a man of understanding—a stubborn and untamed one, wild as the colt of a wild ass, grow into a real man, i.

e. acquire sense and discretion. If this is the meaning, undoubtedly Job is glanced at (so Schultens, Dillmann, and Canon Cook).

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