How you give counsel to one without wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!
No doubt you are the people with whom wisdom shall die!
But I have intelligence as well as you; I do not fall short of you; for who does not know such things as these?
Oh, that you would be altogether silent; that for you would be wisdom!
But turn now, and come on again; I do not find a wise man among you!
What help you give to the powerless, what strength to the feeble arm!
With whose help have you uttered those words, whose breath comes forth from you?
I will state directly what is in my mind, my lips shall speak knowledge clearly;
If not, then you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.
Who is this who darkens counsel with words of ignorance?
Have I no helper, and has my good sense deserted me?
and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes.
for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.