Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?

For what does it matter to the Lord, if you were blameless in your works? Or is it profitable that you should perfect your way?

But who am I, and what [is] my people, that we have been able to be thus forward [in offering] to You? For all things [are] Yours, and of Your own have we given You,

I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; my goodness is nothing apart from You.

Son, if you are wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. [ 9:12A] He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: [ 9:12B] for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own cart to go astray; [ 9:12C] and he goes through a dry desert, and [a land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

"Or who has first given to Him, and it shall be repaid to him?"