Psalms 146:3–4

⁸It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

⁹It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.

⁵¶ Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

⁶For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

²²Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

¹²Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

³Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

⁹Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

⁶¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

¹¹Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

⁷Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

²⁹Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

⁷And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

⁶Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

¹⁰The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

²³But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

²²Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

¹⁰But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

²¹His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

³All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

¹MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

²⁰The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

³Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

¹⁷And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.