Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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.

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!

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 knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it; 12 Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass. 13 If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,

Cross References

Job 39:5-8

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,

Psalm 73:22

Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.

Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:

Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?

Job 12:2-3

Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!

Job 15:14

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

Job 28:28

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

Psalm 51:5

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

Psalm 62:9-10

Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

Proverbs 30:2-4

Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall 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

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

1 Corinthians 3:18-20

Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

James 2:20

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

James 3:13-17

Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;

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