Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?