Why should we be reckoned as beasts, as stupid in your eyes?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And reputed vile in your sight?
Why are we counted as beasts [as if we had no sense]? Why are we unclean in your sight?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?
Why are we considered beasts, ignorant in your sight?
Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
But please, come back again, all of you, for I do not find a wise one among you.
For You have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore You do not exalt them.
“When do you put an end to words? Understand, and let us then talk.
You who tear yourself to pieces in displeasure – would the earth be forsaken for your sake? Or the rock move from its place?
I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward You.
I said in my heart, “Concerning the matter of the sons of men, Elohim selects them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.”
In brotherly love, tenderly loving towards one another, in appreciation, giving preference to each other;
“Forty strikes he gives him but no more, lest he strike him with many more blows than these, and your brother be degraded before your eyes.