Job 9:13
13 “God will not turn back his anger;beneath him bowed the helpers of aRahab.
Job 16:2
2 “I have heard bmany such things;cmiserable comforters are you all.
Psalms 146:3-5
3 dPut not your trust in princes,ein a son of man, in whom there is fno salvation.
4When ghis breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.
5 hBlessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose ihope is in the Lord his God,
Isaiah 2:22
22 jStop regarding mankin whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?
Isaiah 30:3-5
3 lTherefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4For though his officials are at mZoan
and nhis envoys reach oHanes,
5everyone comes to shame
through pa people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
but shame and disgrace.”
Isaiah 31:3
3The Egyptians are man, and not God,and their horses qare flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
and they will all perish together.
Jeremiah 17:5-8
5 Thus says the Lord:“Cursed is the man rwho trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength, ▼
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whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 tHe is like a shrub in the desert,
uand shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in van uninhabited salt land.
7 w“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
xwhose trust is the Lord.
8 yHe is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Lamentations 4:17
17 zOur eyes failed, ever watchingaavainly for help;
in our watching we watched
for aba nation which could not save.
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