Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Oh give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain.

King James Version

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Holman Bible

Give us aid against the foe,
for human help is worthless.

International Standard Version

Give us help against the enemy, because human help is useless.

A Conservative Version

Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.

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.

References

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Context Readings

A Plea For Victory

11 Surely thou, O God, who had cast us off and did not, O God, go forth with our hosts. 12 Oh give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly, for he shall tread down our enemies again.

Cross References

Job 9:13

God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.

Job 16:2

Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.

Psalm 20:1-9

Let the LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; let the name of the God of Jacob lift thee up

Psalm 146:3-5

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no salvation.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what is he to be accounted of?

Isaiah 30:3-5

But the strength of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the hope in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Isaiah 31:3

Now the Egyptian is a man, and not God, and his horses flesh, and not spirit, so that as the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they shall all fail together.

Jeremiah 17:5-8

Thus hath the LORD said; Cursed be the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the LORD.

Lamentations 4:17

Ain As for us, our eyes have failed in seeking our vain help; in our watching we have watched for people that cannot save us.

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