But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. |
But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. |
But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed (corrupted). |
Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals – these are the very things that destroy them. |
But these men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], like irrational beasts – by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish). |
But these, on the one hand, revile as many things concerning which they do not have absolute knowledge, and, on the other hand, revile as many things by instinct like the unreasoning animals, which they understand, by these they are being brought to ruin. |
These fellows, however, are ready to mock at anything that is beyond their knowledge, while in the things that they know by instinct like unreasoning beasts they are utterly depraved. |
But these persons abuse everything they do not understand, and they are going to be destroyed by the very things they know by instinct, like the irrational animals. |
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