For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

Remember this, O Lord, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Arise, O God, and plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You all day long.

Fools mock at sin,
But among the upright there is good will.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline,
But he who regards reproof is sensible.

“How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

A fool does not delight in understanding,
But only in revealing his own mind.

Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool,
And so is wisdom to a man of understanding.

Desire realized is sweet to the soul,
But it is an abomination to fools to turn away from evil.