Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Made
Strengthened
General references
Bible References
Made
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
Jeremiah 17:5
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.
Strengthened
Psalm 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness, and their heart's imagination run wild.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man has the power to restrain the wind, to retain the breath of life. Neither does he have power in the day of death. There is no discharge from that war. Neither will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Hosea 12:7
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
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Job 31:24
If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence,
Proverbs 18:11
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.
James 4:16
You glory in your conceit. Such glory is evil.