Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,
*How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.