So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
Why are we considered as beasts, and accounted vile in your sight?
Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to you.
For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the stupid person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
A stupid man does not know; neither does a fool understand this.
When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Surely I am more stupid 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 make them known, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s feeding crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.