[You asked,] 'Who [is] this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

"I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.

I [was] so foolish and ignorant; I was [like] a beast before You.

So I said: "Woe [is] me, for I am undone! Because I [am] a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts."

For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

And say: "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

A senseless man does not know, Nor does a fool understand this.

Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; For his molded image [is] falsehood, And [there is] no breath in them.

But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,

having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. [They have] a heart trained in covetous practices, [and are] accursed children.

but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.