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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ואיש נבוב ילבב ועיר פרא אדם יולד
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
vAySH nbvb ylbb v`yr prA Adm yvld

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
vir vanus in superbiam erigitur et tamquam pullum onagri se liberum natum putat

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
Authorized (King James) Version   
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
New King James Version   
For an empty-headed man will be wise, When a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.
21st Century King James Version   
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.
Darby Bible Translation   
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
But vain man is void of understanding, yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!
God's Word   
But an empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born tame.
Holman Christian Standard 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!"
NET Bible   
But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being.
New American Standard Bible   
"An idiot will become intelligent When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.
New International Version   
But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born human.
New Living Translation   
An empty-headed person won't become wise any more than a wild donkey can bear a human child.
Webster's Bible Translation   
For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.
The World English Bible   
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Wild donkeys never give birth to human children. And foolish people never become wise!
Young‘s Literal Translation   
And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.
New Life Version   
A fool cannot become wise anymore than a wild donkey can give birth to a man.
The Voice Bible   
As they say, “The empty-headed will become clever in the day the colt of a wild donkey is born human!”
Living Bible   
“Mere man is as likely to be wise as a wild donkey’s colt is likely to be born a man!
New Catholic Bible   
An ignorant fool can no more gain understanding than a wild donkey can be domesticated.
Legacy Standard Bible   
Yet an empty headed man will obtain a heart of wisdom, And the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born like a wild ass’s colt.
Christian Standard Bible   
But a stupid person will gain understanding as soon as a wild donkey is born a human!
Amplified Bible © 1954   
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].
New Century Version   
A fool cannot become wise any more than a wild donkey can be born tame.
The Message   
“Do you think you can explain the mystery of God? Do you think you can diagram God Almighty? God is far higher than you can imagine, far deeper than you can comprehend, Stretching farther than earth’s horizons, far wider than the endless ocean. If he happens along, throws you in jail then hauls you into court, can you do anything about it? He sees through vain pretensions, spots evil a long way off— no one pulls the wool over his eyes! Hollow men, hollow women, will wise up about the same time mules learn to talk.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Before an empty-headed man gets understanding, a wild donkey colt will be born as a man.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
But a stupid person will get understanding, when a wild ass is born human.
Good News Translation®   
Stupid people will start being wise when wild donkeys are born tame.
Wycliffe Bible   
A vain man is raised (up) into pride; and he guesseth himself born free, as the colt of a wild ass (like the colt of a wild donkey).
Contemporary English Version   
but it's easier to tame a wild donkey than to make a fool wise.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass’s colt is born a man.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
But the stupid will get understanding when a wild ass is born human.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
But a stupid person will get understanding, when a wild ass is born human.
Common English Bible © 2011   
A stupid person becomes intelligent when a wild ass of a person is born tame.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise [Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
An empty head will gain understanding, when a colt of a wild jackass is born human.
New American Standard Bible   
An idiot will become intelligent When a wild donkey is born a human.
The Expanded Bible   
A ·fool [L empty-headed person] cannot ·become wise [get understanding] any more than a wild donkey can ·be born tame [or give birth to a human; C Zophar insults Job’s wisdom].
Tree of Life Version   
But a witless man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being?
Revised Standard Version   
But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass’s colt is born a man.
New International Reader's Version   
A wild donkey’s colt can’t be born a human being. And it’s just as impossible that a person without sense can become wise.
BRG Bible   
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
Complete Jewish Bible   
“An empty man can gain understanding, even if he was born like a wild donkey.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
But a stupid person will get understanding, when a wild ass is born human.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
But before a witless ish can become wise, a colt of a pereh (wild donkey) would be born an adam!
Names of God Bible   
But an empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born tame.
Modern English Version   
For an empty-headed man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.
Easy-to-Read Version   
A wild donkey cannot give birth to a man, and a stupid person will never become wise.
International Children’s Bible   
A stupid person cannot become wise. That is as impossible as a wild donkey being born tame.
Lexham English Bible   
But an empty-headed person will get understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born as a human being.
New International Version - UK   
But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.