But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Cross References
Job 39:5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
Psalm 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Psalm 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalm 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Psalm 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 1:2"Futility of futilities," says the Teacher, "futility of futilities! Everything is futile!"
Ecclesiastes 11:10So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
Treasury of Scripture
For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
For vain.
Psalm 62:9,10
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…
Psalm 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Psalm 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
would
Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 12:2,3
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you…
Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
man be
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Ephesians 2:3
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.
a wild
Job 6:5
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 39:5-8
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? …
Jeremiah 2:24
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.
