Be not as the horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and bridle, lest they should come near to you.

But I [was] vile and knew not: I became brutish before You.

Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise.

For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel does not know Me, and the people have not regarded Me.

Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For the end, A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and have become abominable in their devices; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one.

When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

I said unto the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn.

So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and have become subject to reproofs.

Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise; the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord,

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'