Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven from me?
As you know, I know, even I; not falling short of you.
But now He has made me weary. You have desolated all my company.
For you may say, Why do we persecute him? And the root of the matter is found in me.
How have you helped the powerless, or saved the arm not strong?
How have you counseled the one not wise or made known an abundance of wisdom?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we had our conduct in the world in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.
But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself and not in the other.