“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…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 11:8B-12
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12For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
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10If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
11For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
— Job 11:12 —
13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.