⁸ Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

¹⁸ And he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab was to him for a wife, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,

¹⁸ The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.

⁶ For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.

²² A fountain of life `is' understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

⁷ Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

¹⁰ For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

¹¹ Their heart `is': Their houses `are' to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

¹² And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

¹³ This their way `is' folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

⁴ Despised in his eyes `is' a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

³ he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.

²⁷ and he walketh in the way of the house of Ahab, and doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab, for he `is' son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

²⁴ And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'