that I will not take from all your goods, from a string to a sandal strap, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich.

And the Lord said to Gideon, The people with you [are] many, so that I may not deliver Midian into their hand, lest at any time Israel boast against Me, saying, My hand has saved me.

And I told you of old what [would be] before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say, [My] idols have done [it] for me; and should say, [My] graven and molten images have commanded me.

Now they come to pass, and not formerly; and you did not hear of them in former days; do not say, Yes, I know them.

And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Judah as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Judah.

So then you [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? Or has God used you as [His] counselor? Has wisdom come [only] to you?

Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

Woe [to them] that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

Are you wiser than Daniel? Or have not the wise instructed you with their knowledge?

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the prudent I will annul."

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, God was well pleased, through the foolishness of our preaching, to save those that believe.

But God chose the foolish things of the world in order that He might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world in order that He might humiliate the mighty.

so that no flesh may boast before God.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away. As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

But he looked at her, and said to her, You have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not with his lips before God.

They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of His wrath.

For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised His bulwark against me.

Pity me, pity me, O my friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

Jesus answered, "You would have no authority at all against Me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore the one who betrayed Me to you has a greater sin."