Job 11:12

Modern

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Traditional

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

Literal

But a man who is hollow will become wise when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man!

Latin

Vir vanus in superbiam erigitur, et tamquam pullum onagri se liberum natum putat.

Hebrew

English

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Job 39:5–8
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
James 2:20
O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
Jeremiah 2:24
…a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
Psalm 73:22
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
James 3:13–17
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
Job 5:13
He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Ephesians 2:3
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
Job 12:2–3
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Psalm 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Proverbs 30:2–4
Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.