{It is} better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

Put not your trust in princes, {nor} in the son of man, in whom {there is} no help. {help: or, salvation}

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

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Surely 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. {altogether: or, alike}

And the decree went forth that the wise {men} should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth {it}, it {is} folly and shame unto him. {answereth...: Heb. returneth a word}