(A)It is better to take refuge in the Lord
    (B)than to trust in man.

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It is better to take refuge in the Lord(A)
    than to trust in humans.(B)

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22 (A)Stop regarding man
    (B)in whose nostrils is breath,
    for of what account is he?

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22 Stop trusting in mere humans,(A)
    who have but a breath(B) in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?(C)

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Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man (A)who trusts in man
    and makes flesh his strength,[a]
    whose heart turns away from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm

This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,(A)
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.(B)

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