Psalms 118:8-9
8 aIt is better to take refuge in the Lordbthan to trust in man.
9It is better to take refuge in the Lord
cthan to trust in princes.
Psalms 146:3-4
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.
Proverbs 25:19
19Trusting in a treacherous man in time of troubleis like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.
Jeremiah 17:5-6
5 Thus says the Lord:“Cursed is the man hwho trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength, ▼
▼Hebrew arm
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 jHe is like a shrub in the desert,
kand shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in lan uninhabited salt land.
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