Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
the Earth » Man » Shall return to
By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
His breath departs; he returns to his plot; on that day his plans perish.
false Confidence » In man
The king [is] not saved by [the] greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by [the] greatness of strength.
And [when] Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.
Ephraim was like a dove, silly, {without sense}; they call [to] Egypt, they go [to] Assyria.
Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed [is] the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his {strength}, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.
Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance. His breath departs; he returns to his plot; on that day his plans perish.