Therefore I said, Surely, &c.— The meaning of this verse is sufficiently plain from that which follows. Houbigant, however, renders it better thus: But I thought thus with myself; these men of mean condition are certainly foolish, because they have not known, &c.
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Jeremiah 5:4
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.