Psalms 146:3
Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
World English Bible
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 the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:7At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.
Psalms 62:9Surely 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.
Psalms 118:8It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in man.
Isaiah 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
Isaiah 31:3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Jeremiah 17:5The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the 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 →