Psalms 73:22
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
BSB
ASV
So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.
KJV
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
So foolish was I. He, though a saint of God, had acted as if he had been one of the fools whom God abhorreth. Had he not even envied them?—and what is that but to aspire to be like them? The wisest of men have enough folly in them to ruin them unless grace prevents. And ignorant. He had acted as if he knew nothing, had babbled like an idiot, had uttered the very drivel of a witless loon. He did not know how sufficiently to express his sense of his own fatuity.
To the late experience he had had of the power of divine grace in carrying him through this strong temptation and bringing him off a conqueror: "I was foolish and ignorant, and yet thou hast had compassion on me and taught me ( Heb. v. 2 ), and kept me under thy protection;" for the unworthiness of man is no bar to the free grace of God.
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Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
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“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
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Psalms 32:9Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
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Psalms 49:10For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
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Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 92:6A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
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Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?