¹⁷ ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?^(A)
    Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?^(B)
18 If God places no trust in his servants,^(C)
    if he charges his angels with error,^(D)
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,^(E)
    whose foundations^(F) are in the dust,^(G)
    who are crushed^(H) more readily than a moth!^(I)
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
    unnoticed, they perish forever.^(J)
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,^(K)
    so that they die^(L) without wisdom?’^(M)

¹³ Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom;^(A)
    let God, not a man, refute^(B) him.’

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom^(A)
    or the strong boast of their strength^(B)
    or the rich boast of their riches,^(C)