Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.
New American Standard Bible
For
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
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Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 108:12
Prayers for Psalm 108:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Victory
11 Have thou not cast us off, O God? And thou go not forth, O God, with our armies. 12 Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we shall do valiantly, for he it is who will tread down our adversaries.
Cross References
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.
Psalm 20:1-9
LORD answer thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high,
Psalm 146:3-5
Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?
Isaiah 30:3-5
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 17:5-8
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.