"Whyare we regardedas beasts,As stupidin your eyes?
"But comeagainallof you now,For I do not finda wisemanamong you.
"For You have kepttheir heartfrom understanding,ThereforeYou will not exalt[them].
"Howlongwill you huntfor words?Showunderstandingand thenwe can talk.
"O you who tearyourselfin your anger--For your sakeis the earthto be abandoned,Or the rockto be movedfrom its place?
Then I was senselessand ignorant;I was [like] a beastbeforeYou.
I saidto myselfconcerningthe sonsof men,"Godhas surely testedthem in order for them to seethat they are but beasts."
[Be] devotedto oneanotherin brotherly love;give preferenceto one anotherin honor;
"He may beathim fortytimes[but] nomore,sothat he does not beathim with manymorestripesthantheseand your brotheris not degradedin your eyes.
