¹⁷ In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would,^(A) but as a fool.^(B)

¹⁸ Since many are boasting in the way the world does,^(A) I too will boast.^(B)

⁴ though I myself have reasons for such confidence.^(A)

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: