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.

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

¹¹ There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

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

⁶ I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

⁷ Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.

⁸ How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

¹¹ When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

¹ Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid.

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?

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

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