⁸ How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

¹² Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

¹³ He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

¹⁸ Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

²⁰ And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

¹⁷ But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

¹⁹ In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

²⁰ A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

²¹ You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

²² You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

²³ You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

²⁴ For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

²⁵ It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

²⁶ If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

²⁷ And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

²⁸ The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

⁶ There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

¹² Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

¹ Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

² Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

¹⁹ He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

¹² And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.