Psalm 108:12
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Cross-references
Psalm 20:7 declares trust in God's name over chariots and horses — echoing the same contrast between divine help and vain human salvation here.
Psalm 146:3-5 warns against trusting human princes and blesses those whose hope is in God — reinforcing the same point that human help is vain.
Psalm 60:11 is the identical verse, repeated here in Psalm 108 as part of a compilation — a direct citation.
Isaiah 2:22 explicitly commands not to trust in mere humans, directly reinforcing the same point that human help is worthless.
Isaiah 30:3-5 describes reliance on Egypt bringing shame and no advantage — a clear example of human help proving worthless.
Isaiah 31:3 contrasts Egyptians as mere flesh with God as spirit, showing that human help fails and all perish together.
Jeremiah 17:5-8 curses those who trust in man and blesses those who trust in the Lord — a direct thematic parallel to human help being worthless.
Lamentations 4:17 describes watching in vain for a nation that could not save — a vivid illustration of human help's futility.
Mark 5:26 shows the woman with the issue of blood spending all on doctors yet growing worse — a concrete case of human help failing.