[You asked,] "Who is this who conceals [My] counsel with ignorance?" Surely I spoke about things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

I had heard rumors about You, but now my eyes have seen You.

I was a fool and didn't understand; I was an unthinking animal toward You.

Then I said: Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, [and] because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.

So that you will not be conceited, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery: a partial hardening has come to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

A stupid person does not know, a fool does not understand this:

Everyone is stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by [his] carved image, for his cast images are a lie; there is no breath in them.

But these people, like irrational animals-- creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed-- speak blasphemies about things they don't understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

having eyes full of adultery and always looking for sin, seducing unstable people, and with hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

but received a rebuke for his transgression: a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.