In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’
“How you have helped one who has no power! How you have assisted the arm that has no strength!
How you have counseled one who has no wisdom and given much good advice!
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.
All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride.