¹³ Do I have any power to help myself,^(A)
    now that success has been driven from me?

² “How you have helped the powerless!^(A)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^(B)

²⁸ “If you say, ‘How we will hound^(A) him,
    since the root of the trouble lies in him,^[a]’

² What you know, I also know;
    I am not inferior to you.^(A)

² “Doubtless you are the only people who matter,
    and wisdom will die with you!^(A)
3 But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?^(B)