¹² But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

¹⁰ But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

³ But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

⁴ by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

²¹ Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

³¹ I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

²¹ For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

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

⁴ Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:

²² For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

³² The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.

⁸ Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?

⁶ A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does a fool understand this:

¹⁰ For he sees that wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless perish, And leave their wealth to others.