Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Parallel translations
- KJV Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
- BSB Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
- NKJV Understand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise?
- NASB ¶Pay attention, you stupid ones among the people; And when will you understand, foolish ones?
- NLT Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on?
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- Ps 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
- Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- Ps 49:10For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
- Deut 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Prov 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
- Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
- Rom 3:11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
- Jer 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
- Prov 8:5You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.
- Ps 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
- Jer 8:6–8I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
- Prov 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
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