I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evil-doers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
*Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.
I said in my heart, *As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Yisra'el doesn't know, my people don't consider.