³ Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help.

⁸ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in man.

⁹ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in princes.

²² Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

¹¹ Give us help against the adversary, For the help of man is vain.

⁹ Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

¹² Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

⁶ Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

⁵ Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

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

³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.