³ Wherefore are we counted as beasts, `And' are become unclean in your sight?

²² So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was `as' a beast before thee.

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt `them'.

¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

¹⁸ I said in my heart, `It is' because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are `but as' beasts.

¹⁰ In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;