What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
“Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!
But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
“But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know.
But if not, then listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.
For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.