⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁶ A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:

¹⁰ For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.

³ For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

¹¹ There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

⁶ I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

¹¹ When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

¹ Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

⁵ O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

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

²⁹ Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!