⁴⁰ You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the inside also?

²⁰ "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

³⁶ You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

²⁵ He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.

¹⁷ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

¹ An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

²¹ Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

⁵ You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

²² "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?

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

⁹ He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?

⁴ I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast;" To the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.

⁵ Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

¹⁵ He who fashions all of their hearts; And he considers all of their works.

¹ > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

²² They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?

⁷ Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

²⁶ God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."