Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt

New American Standard Bible

An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

King James Version

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Holman Bible

But a stupid man will gain understanding
as soon as a wild donkey is born a man!

International Standard Version

An empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born a human being!"

A Conservative Version

But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey's colt.

American Standard Version

But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.

Amplified


“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise
[Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.

Bible in Basic English

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

Darby Translation

Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.

King James 2000

For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.

Modern King James verseion

For foolish man would be wise, and man is born a wild ass's colt.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A vain body exalteth himself, and man, newborn, is like a wild ass's colt.

NET Bible

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being.

New Heart English Bible

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

The Emphasized Bible

But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass's colt, is born a man!

Webster

For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.

World English Bible

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

Youngs Literal Translation

And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נבב 
Nabab 
Usage: 4

man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

would be wise
לבב 
Labab 
Usage: 5

אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

be born
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

פּרה פּרא 
Pere' 
Usage: 10

References

Easton

Ass

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Ass

Watsons

Ass

Context Readings

God Can Do As He Pleases

11 For he knew men of vanity, and he will see iniquity; and will he not understand? 12 And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt 13 If thou preparedst thy heart, and didst spread thy hands towards him;



Cross References

Job 39:5-8

Who sent the wild ass free? and who opened the bonds of the wild ass?

Psalm 73:22

And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.

Job 5:13

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

Job 6:5

Shall the wild ass bray at grass? if the ox will low over his provender?

Job 12:2-3

Verily that ye are the people, and shall wisdom die with you?

Job 15:14

What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?

Job 28:28

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 62:9-10

Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

Proverbs 30:2-4

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

Jeremiah 2:24

A wild ass accustomed to the desert in gratifying her soul, panting after the wind in her heat; who shall turn her back? all seeking her will not be wearied; in her new moon they shall find her.

Romans 1:22

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

Romans 12:16

Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

James 2:20

And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?

James 3:13-17

Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom.

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