that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, that you may not say, I have made Abram rich;

And Jehovah said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, that Israel not glorify itself against Me, saying, My own hand has delivered me.

I even declared it to you from the beginning. Before it happened I proclaimed it to you, lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image and my molten image has commanded them.

They are created now, and not since the beginning; even before the day when you did not hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.

Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.

Truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, much older than your father.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and understanding in their own sight!

Thus says Jehovah, Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches;

(Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that can be hidden from you.

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty;

that no flesh should boast in His presence.

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

and he said: Naked I have come from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah has given, and Jehovah has taken away; blessed is the name of Jehovah.

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. Shall we indeed receive good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

By the breath of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

know then that God has bowed me, and has surrounded me with His net.

Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends! For the hand of God has struck me!

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