¹⁰ Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

¹² Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?"

⁶ Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child.

²² Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

¹ Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

⁶ But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

² "No doubt, but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

¹ When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

² For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

³ I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴ My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

¹⁰ For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."