¹³ Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

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

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.

²⁸ If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me,

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

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

⁴ But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.