⁸ Take notice, you senseless ones^(A) among the people;
    you fools, when will you become wise?

⁶ Senseless people^(A) do not know,
    fools do not understand,

¹¹     there is no one who understands;
    there is no one who seeks God.

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)

²⁹ If only they were wise and would understand this^(A)
    and discern what their end will be!^(B)

⁸ They are all senseless^(A) and foolish;^(B)
    they are taught by worthless wooden idols.^(C)

⁶ I have listened^(A) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(B) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(C)
    like a horse charging into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(D)
    the requirements of the Lord.

⁸ “‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law^(E) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?

¹¹ When its twigs are dry, they are broken off^(A)
    and women come and make fires^(B) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;^(C)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator^(D) shows them no favor.^(E)