And if not my help in me? and deliverance fled from me?
According to your knowledge I knew also: I fall not more than you.
But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly.
For ye shall say, Why shall we pursue after him and the root of the word was found in me?
How didst thou help to him of no strength? didst thou save the arm of no strength?
How didst thou counsel to him of no wisdom? and didst thou make known help for abundance?
If my strength the strength of stones? if my flesh of brass?
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.
And let each try his own work, and then in himself alone will he have boasting, and not in another.