³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

² What ye know, `the same' do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

⁴ But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

⁵ Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

⁶ Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

⁷ My soul refuseth to touch `them'; They are as loathsome food to me.

² How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

³ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.

⁵ For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

²¹ I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.