But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.

空虚的人却毫无知识；人生在世好像野驴的驹子。

空虚的人若获得知识，野驴生下的驹子也成了人。

空虚的人若获得知识，野驴生下的驹子也成了人。

愚蠢人若能变得聪明，野驴驹也可生成人样。

虚妄的人悟出慧心，就像野驴生子为人。

空虛的人卻毫無知識；人生在世好像野驢的駒子。

空虛的人若獲得知識，野驢生下的駒子也成了人。

空虛的人若獲得知識，野驢生下的駒子也成了人。

愚蠢人若能變得聰明，野驢駒也可生成人樣。

虛妄的人悟出慧心，就像野驢生子為人。

故此空空洞洞的人有心思，野驢駒子也生成為人！

世人空空無知、生而等於野驢之子、

斯世之人、冥頑不靈、空空如也、自其誕生、已若野驢之子。

世人空空無知、自其誕生、已如野驢之子、或作人雖空虛生如野驢之子亦當省悟

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.

But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!

An empty headed person won’t become wise any more than a wild donkey can bear a human child.

But a stupid person will gain understanding as soon as a wild donkey is born a human!

An idiot will become intelligent When a wild donkey is born a human.

For an empty-headed man will be wise, When a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.

But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.

But a stupid man will gain understanding as soon as a wild donkey is born a man!

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

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.

An empty- headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

“ Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout.It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing.

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?

I also said to myself,“ As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.Such“ wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.

And he said to the human race,“ The fear of the Lord— that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”

Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.

“ Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?

Surely I am only a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding.I have not learned wisdom, nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Whose hands have gathered up the wind? Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.

“ What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become“ fools” so that you may become wise.For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written:“ He catches the wise in their craftiness”;and again,“ The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.