Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. ¹  In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

Look, you make my days short-lived, ¹  and my life span is nothing from your perspective. ²  Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor. ³ 

Look, all his associates ¹  will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. ²  Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? ¹ 

I cry out to you, ¹  but you do not answer me; I stand up, ²  and you only look at me. ³ 

Terrify them, Lord! ¹  Let the nations know they are mere mortals! ²  (Selah)

By the Lord’s decree ¹  the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created. ² 

Yet you will die like mortals; ¹  you will fall like all the other rulers.” ² 

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

The Lord says, ¹  “I will make youths their officials; malicious young men ²  will rule over them.

(I do not accept ¹  human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, ¹  he runs away. ² 

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, ¹  but are made powerful by God ²  for tearing down strongholds. ³  We tear down arguments ⁴ 

Now ¹  I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ²  that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. ³ 

Each of you should be concerned ¹  not only ²  about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. ³ 

These people are divisive, ¹  worldly, ²  devoid of the Spirit. ³ 

And in his name the Gentiles ¹  will hope.” ² 

All ¹  these things are the beginning of birth pains.

John’s baptism ¹  – was it from heaven or from people?” ²