Fools, because of their transgressions, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge.
Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.
and I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,
A brutish man does not know, nor does a fool understand this:
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is no one who does good.
Immediately he followed her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,