Why Write-Verbose messages don't appear from conditions - powershell

Question

I'm trying to receive Verbose messages of every sorting step and run my script with -Verbose key, but I don't receive any verbose message from the conditionals (loops). I receive my messages only if I call them outside the conditionals. Please help
[CmdletBinding()]
param()
set-location "\test folder"
$listOfItems = Get-ChildItem | Select-Object -Property Name, Mode, LastWriteTime, #{label = "FileSize (MB)";expression = {$_.Length/1024/1024}}
$bufferItem = 0
for ($i = $listOfItems.Length - 1; $i -eq 0; $i--) {
for ($j = 0; $i -lt $i; $j++) {
if ($listOfItems[$j]."FileSize (MB)" -gt $listOfItems[$j + 1]."FileSize (MB)") {
Write-Verbose -Message "Transfer the value of the buffer variable to the element below the list"
continue
}
elseif ($listOfItems[$j]."FileSize (MB)" -lt $listOfItems[$j + 1]."FileSize (MB)") {
$bufferItem = $listOfItems[$j]
$listOfItems[$j] = $listOfItems[$j + 1]
$listOfItems[$j + 1] = $bufferItem
}
Write-Verbose -Message "Transfer the value of the buffer variable to the element below the list"
}
}

Answer 1

There's a bug in your inner loop condition:
for ($j = 0; $i -lt $i; $j++) {
Since $i -lt $i will never evaluate to $true, the inner loop body won't ever execute, and no Write-Verbose statement is ever reached.
Fix the loop condition and you'll find Write-Verbose works perfectly fine in conditional statements.