Parallel Verses

Webster

For vain man would be wise, though man is born like 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.

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.

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!

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 knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt. 13 If thou preparest thy heart, and stretchest out thy hands towards him;



Cross References

Job 39:5-8

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Psalm 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Job 12:2-3

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 28:28

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Psalm 51:5

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

Psalm 62:9-10

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Proverbs 30:2-4

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Jeremiah 2:24

A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools:

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

James 2:20

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 3:13-17

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.

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