Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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.

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

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 knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}. 12 But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being. 13 "If you yourself direct your heart and stretch out your hands to him--

Cross References

Job 39:5-8

"Who has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,

Psalm 73:22

then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said to myself concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts."

Job 5:13

[He] is capturing [the] wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed.

Job 6:5

Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?

Job 12:2-3

"Truly indeed you [are the] people, and wisdom will die with you.

Job 15:14

"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?

Job 28:28

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

Psalm 51:5

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

Psalm 62:9-10

Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.

Psalm 92:6

[The] brutish man does not know, and [the] fool cannot understand this.

Proverbs 30:2-4

Certainly I [am more] stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind [is] not for me.

Jeremiah 2:24

A wild ass accustomed to [the] desert, in the desire of her soul. She gasps [for] wind [in] her rutting time. Who can quell her [lust]? All [those who] seek her will not grow weary, in her month they will find her.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 12:16

Think the same [thing] toward one another; {do not think arrogantly}, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise {in your own sight}.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.

James 2:20

But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

James 3:13-17

Who [is] wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works, with the humility of wisdom.

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