³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

² What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

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

⁴ But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

⁵ Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

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

⁷ My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

² "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

³ How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

⁴ Don't answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.

⁵ For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

²¹ I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however 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 servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.