What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 11:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For vain man would be wise, Though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But a stupid man will get wisdom [only] when a wild donkey's colt is born a man [as when he thinks himself free because he is lifted up in pride]. American Standard Version (1901) But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt. Common English Bible A stupid person becomes intelligent when a wild ass of a person is born tame. Catholic Public Domain Version A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass's colt. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt. |
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
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.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
among whom also we all had our conversation 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.