And I was brutish and did not know; I was like animals with You.
Why are we counted as beasts? Are we stupid in your eyes?
Be not like the horse, like the mule, with no understanding; with bit and bridle his gear to be held in, that they do not come near you.
For he sees wise men die; together the fool and the animal-like ones perish and leave their riches to others.
O God, You know my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hidden from You.
A brutish man does not know; a fool does not understand this.
When the wicked ones flourish like grass, and all the evildoers blossom, it is for them to be destroyed forever.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and the understanding of a man is not to me.
I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of men, that God may purge them and see that they are beasts, they by themselves.
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not understood.