A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof {is} brutish.

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!

I hearkened and heard, {but} they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

So foolish {was} I, and ignorant: I was {as} a beast before thee. {ignorant: Heb. I knew not} {before Heb. with}

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock {is} a doctrine of vanities. {altogether: Heb. in one, or, at once}

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Every man is brutish in {his} knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image {is} falsehood, and {there is} no breath in them. {brutish in his knowledge: or, more brutish than to know}

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: {but} Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: {understanding: Heb. heart}

And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. {in...: Heb. before thine eyes}

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

{Ye} fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

{Ye} fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

The words of his mouth {are} iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, {and} to do good.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, {and} thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when {shall it} once {be}? {when...: Heb. after when yet?}

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.