⁶ The stupid man cannot know;
    the fool cannot understand this:

¹¹     no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.

^29 (A)If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would ^(B)discern their latter end!

^8 (A)They are both ^(B)stupid and foolish;
    the instruction of idols is but wood!

^6 (A)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    ^(B)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and ^(C)the turtledove, ^(D)swallow, and crane^[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
^(E)but my people know not
    the rules^[b] of the Lord.

¹¹ When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
^(A)For this is a people without discernment;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.