Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Bible References
For vain
Psalm 146:3
Don't put your trust in princes, each a 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. You are all miserable comforters!
Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
Isaiah 30:3
Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will 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. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
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.