^11:16I say again, let no one think that I am a fool.³⁰ But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. ^11:17What I am saying with this boastful confidence³¹ I do not say the way the Lord would.³² Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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Footnotes

30 Or “am foolish.”
31 Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchēseōs) has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).
32 Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would but as a fool.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I repeat: Let no one consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool so that I can also boast a little. What I am saying in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but as it were, foolishly.

NLTNew Living Translation

Again I say, don’t think that I am a fool to talk like this. But even if you do, listen to me, as you would to a foolish person, while I also boast a little. Such boasting is not from the Lord, but I am acting like a fool.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Again I say, do not let anyone think I am foolish. But indeed, if you do, accept me even as foolish, in order that I also may boast a little. What I am saying in this project of boasting, I am not saying as the Lord would say, but as in foolishness.

KJV 1900King James Version

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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