False Confidence in Man
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Psalm 33:16
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
Psalm 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Psalm 146:3, 4
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. / When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Isaiah 2:22
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
Hosea 7:11
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.