Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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Watsons
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 108:12
Prayers for Psalm 108:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Victory
11
Will you O God, who cast us off? Will you O God, go forth with our hosts?
12
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Cross References
Job 9:13
God will not withdraw his anger. The allies of the proud lie thrown down beneath him.
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
Psalm 20:1-9
([Psalm of David]) Jehovah will answer you in times of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob will protect you.
Psalm 146:3-5
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
Isaiah 30:3-5
The safety of Pharaoh will be your shame and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
Isaiah 31:3
The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.
Jeremiah 17:5-8
This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.