Is there no help within me; has not success been banished from me?
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Surely now He has exhausted me; You have devastated my entire household.
“If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the matter is found in him;’
“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm without strength!
How you have counseled the one without wisdom and revealed your abundant insights!
Is my strength the strength of rock? Is my flesh bronze?
For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world, and most especially toward you, with simplicity and godly sincerity—not by human wisdom but by the grace of God.
Rather let each one examine his own work. Then he will have pride in himself alone and not in comparison to anyone else.