² And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to hand Midian over to them, ^(A)otherwise Israel would ^[a]become boastful, saying, ‘My own ^[b]power has saved me.’

⁵ so that your faith would not ^[a]rest on the ^[b]wisdom of mankind, but on ^(A)the power of God.