Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
no one understands; no one seeks for God.
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle. Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord. “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
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