So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.
I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are beasts.
A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.
For he shall see it. Wise men die. The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave their wealth to others.
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man,
Become 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 to thee.
O God, thou know my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee.
Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,