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The dullard cannot know;
    the stupid cannot understand this:

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Senseless people(A) do not know,
    fools do not understand,

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

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22 I was stupid and ignorant;
    I was like a brute beast toward you.(A)

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22 I was senseless(A) and ignorant;
    I was a brute beast(B) before you.

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22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

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Understand, O dullest of the people;
    fools, when will you be wise?(A)

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Take notice, you senseless ones(A) among the people;
    you fools, when will you become wise?

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Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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10 When we look at the wise, they die;
    fool and dolt perish together
    and leave their wealth to others.(A)

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10 For all can see that the wise die,(A)
    that the foolish and the senseless(B) also perish,
    leaving their wealth(C) to others.(D)

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

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14 Those who are unspiritual[a] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.14 Or natural

14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(A) but considers them foolishness,(B) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

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14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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14 Everyone is stupid and without knowledge;
    goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols,
for their images are false,
    and there is no breath in them.(A)

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14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
    every goldsmith is shamed(A) by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;(B)
    they have no breath in them.

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14 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.

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22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools hate knowledge?(A)

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22 “How long will you who are simple(A) love your simple ways?
    How long will mockers delight in mockery
    and fools hate(B) knowledge?

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

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20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A)

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20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

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The ox knows its owner
    and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does not know;
    my people do not understand.(A)

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The ox knows(A) its master,
    the donkey its owner’s manger,(B)
but Israel does not know,(C)
    my people do not understand.(D)

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

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