Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?
Psalm 73:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee. 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. |
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.
For he seeth that wise men die, The fool and the brutish together perish, And leave their wealth to others.
When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man:
I said in mine heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.