Psalm 73:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So foolish, stupid, and brutish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. American Standard Version (1901) So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee. Common English Bible I was stupid and ignorant. I acted like nothing but an animal toward you. Catholic Public Domain Version Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day. |
Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you.
When we look at the wise, they die; fool and dolt perish together and leave their wealth to others.
O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,
I said to myself with regard to humans that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.
The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.