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They sound like animals howling among the bushes,
    huddled together beneath the nettles.

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12 An empty-headed person won’t become wise
    any more than a wild donkey can bear a human child.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11:12 Or than a wild male donkey can bear a tame colt.

Don’t I have a right to complain?
    Don’t wild donkeys bray when they find no grass,
    and oxen bellow when they have no food?

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12 This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives.”

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