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12 A wild donkey’s colt can’t be born a human being.
    And it’s just as impossible that a person without sense can become wise.

13 “So commit yourself to God completely.
    Reach out your hands to him for help.
14 Get rid of all the sin you have.
    Don’t let anything that is evil stay in your tent.

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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