So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
Why are we counted as beasts, and regarded as vile in your sight?
Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.
For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the senseless person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:
Surely I am more senseless than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
