Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Holman Bible
for human help is worthless.
International Standard Version
Give us help against the enemy, because human help is useless.
A Conservative Version
Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.
American Standard Version
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
Amplified
Give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].
Darby Translation
Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
Julia Smith Translation
Give to us help from straits: and vain the salvation of man.
King James 2000
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Give us help against [the] enemy, for the help of humankind [is] futile.
Modern King James verseion
Give us help from trouble; for vain is the deliverance of man.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O be thou our help in trouble; for vain is the help of man.
NET Bible
Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.
New Heart English Bible
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
Webster
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
World English Bible
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
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Watsons
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 108:12
Prayers for Psalm 108:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Victory
11 Hast not Thou, O God, cast us off? And Thou goest not out, O God, with our hosts! 12 Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man. 13 In God we do mightily, And He doth tread down our adversaries!
Cross References
Job 9:13
God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers.
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all.
Psalm 20:1-9
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high,
Psalm 146:3-5
Trust not in princes -- in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease for you from man, Whose breath is in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?
Isaiah 30:3-5
And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,
Isaiah 31:3
And the Egyptians are men, and not God, And their horses are flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.
Jeremiah 17:5-8
Thus said Jehovah: Cursed is the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.
Lamentations 4:17
While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.