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.
Poor - rather 'the poor.' He supposes for the moment that this utter depravity is confined to the uninstructed poor, and that he would find a different: state of things in the higher ranks; but there he finds unbridled poor, and that he would find a different: state of things in the higher ranks; but there he finds unbridled profligacy.