Holy Scripture
Job 11:12
A church father on this verse
“Zophar is right in saying, "Like an ass of the desert." The ass does not stop braying. There is no difference, he says, between our words and those incomprehensible sounds that an ass produces at random and foolishly. We criticize everything, with regard to everything, and we put the blame on everything. Again they ex…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12But man vainly buoys himself up with words; And a mortal born of woman is like an ass of the desert.
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10And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done?
11For he knows the works of transgressors; And when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook it.
— Job 11:12 —
13For if thou hast made thy heart pure, And liftest up thine hands toward him;
14If there is any iniquity in thy hands, Put it far from thee, And let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation.