Is my help not within me? And is ability driven from me?
For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you.
“How have you helped the powerless, saved an arm not strong?
If you say, ‘Why do we persecute him?’ Seeing the root of the matter has been found in me,
What you know, I know too; I am not less than you.
But let each one examine his own work, and then he shall have boasting in himself alone, and not in another.
Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh of bronze?
How have you given counsel to the unwise, or declared sound advice to many?
But now He has wearied me. You have stunned all my company.
