³ Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

²² As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

⁴ You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

¹⁰ But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

⁷ But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

¹⁸ I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

¹⁰ Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;