But these words seemed like pure nonsense ¹  to them, and they did not believe them.

“How long will you speak these things, ¹  seeing ²  that the words of your mouth are like a great ³  wind? ⁴ 

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!” ¹ 

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world ¹  do you continue this meaningless talk? ² 

So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; ¹  without knowledge he multiplies words.”

but we preach about a crucified Christ, ¹  a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? ¹  Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, ¹  but the Lord made the heavens. ² 

that ¹  Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding. ² 

Does he argue ¹  with useless ²  talk, with words that have no value in them?

I have seen ruthless evil men ¹  growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil. ² 

The tongue of the wise ¹  treats knowledge correctly, ²  but the mouth of the fool spouts out ³  folly.

At the beginning his words ¹  are foolish and at the end ²  his talk ³  is wicked madness, ⁴ 

The prophets will prove to be full of wind. ¹  The Lord has not spoken through them. ²  So, let what they say happen to them.’”

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, ¹  we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

For the household gods ¹  have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd. ² 

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you ¹  through an empty, deceitful philosophy ²  that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits ³  of the world, and not according to Christ.

Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them; the Lord also executed judgments on their gods.

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers ¹  and humiliates ²  the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men ³  and makes their advice ⁴  seem foolish,