I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward You.
Why should we be reckoned as beasts, as stupid in your eyes?
Do not be like the horse, like the mule, With no understanding, with bit and bridle, Else they do not come near you.”
For he sees wise men die, The foolish and the ignorant both perish, And shall leave their wealth to others.
O Elohim, You Yourself know my foolishness; And my guilt has not been hidden from You.
A senseless man does not know, And a fool does not understand this.
When the wrong spring up like grass, And all the workers of wickedness blossom, It is for them to be destroyed forever.
For I am more stupid than anyone, And do not have the understanding of a man.
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.”
An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕ
