Psalms 73:22

Psalms 73:22. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Judging as the beast judges, that can only see the little grass around itself, and fattens itself, knowing nothing of the shambles, and of the butcher’s knife that is being sharpened to kill it there. "So," says the psalmist, "I was like that, I forgot about the future, I did not judge as an immortal being should judge concerning the infinite and the eternal, but I judged things as a beast might judge by the narrow compass of its little grazing ground.