Psalm 73:22

New International Version

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

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Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?

Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.

For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.

You, God, know my folly; my guilt is not hidden from you.

Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Surely I am only a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding.

I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”