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I have become a fool!

"I act like a fool!"

You forced me to be, for I should have been praised by you,

AT: "You should have openly praised my work,"

for I was not at all inferior to the

AT: "for I am not at all less than the"

"super-apostles"

apostles"** - "proud false teachers"

For how were you less important than the rest of the churches,

AT: "The only difference between the other churches I worked in and you"

except that I was not a burden to you?

AT: "was that I didn't ask you for money to pay my expenses."

Forgive me this wrong!

Paul is asking for forgiveness for not placing a demand on the Corinthians to support him. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony)