² How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

²⁷ And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

¹⁴ Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

⁴ Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

⁹ Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

⁴ It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

⁵ I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

² No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

²⁵ How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

¹² Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?

³ Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;

⁴ He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

⁵ The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.

⁶ They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

⁷ So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.