“How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
Then Job answered:
How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?