But I have as much sense as you have; I am in no way inferior to you; everyone knows all that you have said.

Did you overhear the plans God made? Does human wisdom belong to you alone?

There is nothing you know that we don't know.

that Job is speaking from ignorance and that nothing he says makes sense.

It is useless for you to go on talking; it is clear you don't know what you are saying.

Listen, all of you, to the voice of God, to the thunder that comes from his mouth.

(SEE 40:3)

I have already said more than I should.

After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did.

Now, concerning what you wrote about food offered to idols. It is true, of course, that "all of us have knowledge," as they say. Such knowledge, however, puffs a person up with pride; but love builds up.

Those who think they know something really don't know as they ought to know.

For you gladly tolerate anyone who comes to you and preaches a different Jesus, not the one we preached; and you accept a spirit and a gospel completely different from the Spirit and the gospel you received from us!

I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called "apostles" of yours!

I repeat: no one should think that I am a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, just so I will have a little to boast of.

But since there are so many who boast for merely human reasons, I will do the same.

I am acting like a fool---but you have made me do it. You are the ones who ought to show your approval of me. For even if I am nothing, I am in no way inferior to those very special "apostles" of yours.