Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Understand, ye brutish among the people. The Psalmist turns from the infidel oppressors who uttered the cavil against God (Psalms 94:7) to those "among the people" of God by profession who give ear to and secretly sympathize with it. Men become "brutish" by severance from God; because it is only by union with Him that man, made in the image of God, attains His true ideal (Psalms 73:22; Psalms 92:6).
And ye fools, when will ye be wise? "The world by wisdom knew not God" (1 Corinthians 1:21). Therefore, "if any man seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise" (1 Corinthians 3:18). The worldly pique themselves on an intelligence superior to superstitions prejudices in ignoring God; yet this is the very acme of folly.