Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Bible References
For vain
Psalm 146:3
O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man, for there is no help in them.
Job 9:13
He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand: but the proudest of all must stoop under him.
Job 16:2
"I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.
Isaiah 2:22
Fear not, then, any man whose breath is in his nostrils - for what is he?
Isaiah 30:3
But Pharaoh's help shall be your confusion, and the comfort in the Egyptian's shadow shall be your own shame.
Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit. And as soon as the LORD stretcheth out his hand: then shall the helper fall, and he that should have been helped, and they shall all together be destroyed.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus sayeth the LORD, "Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, and that taketh flesh for his arm: and he, whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Lamentations 4:17
{Pe} Wherefore yet our eyes fail us, while we look for vain help: seeing we be ever waiting upon a people that can do us no good.