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

²² I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

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

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

¹⁴ Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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?'

¹⁴ Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

³ The ox knows his owner, And the donkey his master's crib; But Israel doesn't know, My people don't consider.

² "Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

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

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

⁹ Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, Who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

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.