Psalms 73:22

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

When 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.

For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,