New Revised Standard Version
But a stupid person will get understanding, when a wild ass is born human.

Contemporary English Version
but it's easier to tame a wild donkey than to make a fool wise.

New American Bible
An empty head will gain understanding, when a colt of a wild jackass is born human.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

For vain.

Psalm 62:9,10 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive. . . .

Psalm 73:22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

Psalm 92:6 The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

Romans 1:22 For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

would

Job 5:13 Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

Job 12:2,3 Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you? . . .

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Proverbs 30:2-4 I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me. . . .

Romans 12:16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. . . .

James 3:13-17 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. . . .

man be

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Ephesians 2:3 In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

a wild

Job 6:5 Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?

Job 39:5-8 Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds? . . .

Jeremiah 2:24 A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.