“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed!