⁸ Understand, 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 seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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

¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

⁸ But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

⁶ I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

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

¹ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

⁵ O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

²² So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

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