Why should we be reckoned as beasts, as stupid in your eyes?
But please, come back again, all of you, for I do not find a wise one among you.
For You have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore You do not exalt them.
“When do you put an end to words? Understand, and let us then talk.
You who tear yourself to pieces in displeasure – would the earth be forsaken for your sake? Or the rock move from its place?
I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward You.
I said in my heart, “Concerning the matter of the sons of men, Elohim selects them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.”
In brotherly love, tenderly loving towards one another, in appreciation, giving preference to each other;
“Forty blows he gives him but no more, lest he beat him with many more blows than these, and your brother be degraded before your eyes.
