"For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt."
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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?
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
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.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
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.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
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.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
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.
And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.
But vain man can become wise If a man can be born as a wild donkey's colt.
And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.