Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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!

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 in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it. 12 And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching. 13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;



Cross References

Job 39:5-8

Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

Psalm 73:22

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

Job 6:5

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

Job 12:2-3

No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Job 28:28

And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

Psalm 51:5

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Psalm 62:9-10

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

Proverbs 30:2-4

For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:

Jeremiah 2:24

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

Romans 1:22

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

Romans 12:16

Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20

Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

James 2:20

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

James 3:13-17

Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

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