⁵ Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

²⁴ For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

¹² He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

⁶ Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

²³ There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

²⁶ For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

²⁷ But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;

²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

¹⁹ Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:

⁴ The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

¹³ If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

¹² By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

¹³ By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

¹⁴ See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

¹³ With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

¹⁴ Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

¹⁵ Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

¹⁶ With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;

³ What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

¹⁹ If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

¹⁴ How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?