Job 11:12 - Revised Standard Version

But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King 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.

Job 11:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:14

What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 28:28

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

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Job 6:5

Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 51:5

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

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.

Psalm 92:6

The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this:

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited.

Ephesians 2:3

Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?