Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Bible References
For vain
Psalm 146:3
Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.
Job 9:13
God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow.
Job 16:2
"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.
Isaiah 2:22
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
Isaiah 30:3
And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation.
Isaiah 31:3
And the Egyptians [are] human and not God, and their horses [are] flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and [the] helper will stumble, and [the] one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed [is] the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his {strength}, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.
Lamentations 4:17
Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.