Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
In Context
2While I live I will praise LORD. I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.
4His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth. In that very day his thoughts perish.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:7And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because thou have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on LORD thy God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of thy hand.
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.
Psalms 118:8It is better to take refuge in LORD than to put confidence in man.
Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?
Isaiah 31:3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit. And when LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they shall all be consumed together.
Jeremiah 17:5Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 146:2-5
The Divine Bounty. 1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise the Lord , O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord : I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising… Read the whole commentary →