³ Trust not in princes -- in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.

⁸ Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,

⁹ Better to take refuge in Jehovah, Than to trust in princes.

²² Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

¹¹ Give to us help from adversity, And vain `is' the deliverance of man.

⁹ Only -- vanity `are' the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity `are' lighter.

¹² Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.

⁶ and Isaiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord, Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah: Cursed `is' the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.

⁶ And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

³ And the Egyptians `are men', and not God, And their horses `are' flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.