Do not answer [nor pretend to agree with the frivolous comments of] a [closed-minded] fool according to his folly,
Otherwise you, even you, will be like him.

Yet I consider myself in no way inferior to the [so-called] super-apostles.

Who knoweth not such things as these

“Can something that has no taste to it be eaten without salt?
Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?

“What a help you are to the weak (powerless)!
How you have saved the arm that is without strength!

General references

“What you know I also know;
I am not inferior to you.

“If you now have understanding, hear this;
Listen to the sound of my words.

“Who is this that darkens counsel [questioning my authority and wisdom]
By words without knowledge?