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12 An ignorant fool can no more gain understanding
    than a wild donkey can be domesticated.

Stretch Out Your Hands toward God[a]

13 “However, if you will have a change of heart
    and stretch out your hands toward him in prayer,
14 if you banish all iniquity far away from you
    and do not allow wickedness to penetrate your tent,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:13 Prayer combined with a sincere conversion can obtain from God a complete reversal of a situation.

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