12 For an (A)empty-headed man will be wise,
When a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.

13 “If you would (B)prepare your heart,
And (C)stretch out your hands toward Him;
14 If iniquity were in your hand, and you put it far away,
And (D)would not let wickedness dwell in your tents;

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12 But the witless can no more become wise
    than a wild donkey’s colt(A) can be born human.[a](B)

13 “Yet if you devote your heart(C) to him
    and stretch out your hands(D) to him,(E)
14 if you put away(F) the sin that is in your hand
    and allow no evil(G) to dwell in your tent,(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:12 Or wild donkey can be born tame