Have I any help in me, when 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[1] made desolate all my company.
If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him,'
"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity[3] and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.