Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Bible References
For vain
Psalm 146:3
Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Job 9:13
God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?
Isaiah 30:3
Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit. And when LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they shall all be consumed together.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.