Verse 17

A horse is but a vayne thynge to saue a man, it is not the power of his stregth that can delyuer him.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 20:7 : 7 Some put their trust in charettes, & some in horses: but we wil remebre ye name of the LORDE oure God.
  • Prov 21:31 : 31 The horse is prepared agaynst ye daye of battayll, but the LORDE geueth the victory.
  • Ps 147:10 : 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse, nether delyteth he in eny mas legges.
  • Judg 4:15 : 15 But the LORDE discomfited Sissera wt all his charettes & hoost, & made the afrayed of the edge of the swerde before Barak, so yt Sissera leapte of his charet, & fled on fote.
  • 2 Kgs 7:6-7 : 6 For the LORDE had made the Syrians to heare a noyse of horses, charettes, and of a mightie greate hoost, so that they sayde one to another amonge the selues: Beholde, the kynge of Israel hath hyred the kynge of the Hethites, and the kynge of the Egipcians agaynst vs, to come vpo vs. 7 And they gat them vp, and fled early in the twylight, and lefte their bothes, and horses and Asses in the tentes as they stode, & fled euery man where he mighte saue his life.
  • Job 39:19-25 : 19 Hast thou geuen the horse is strength, or lerned him to bowe downe his neck with feare: 20 that he letteth him self be dryuen forth like a greshopper, where as the stoute neyenge that he maketh, is fearfull? 21 he breaketh ye grounde with the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength, and runneth to mete the harnest men. 22 He layeth asyde all feare, his stomack is not abated, nether starteth he a back for eny swerde. 23 Though the quyuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shilde glistre: 24 yet russheth he in fearsly, and beateth vpon the grounde. He feareth not the noyse of the trompettes, 25 but as soone as he heareth the shawmes blowe, tush (sayeth he) for he smelleth the batell afarre of, ye noyse, the captaynes and the shoutinge.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 So I turned me vnto other thinges vnder ye Sonne, and I sawe, that in runnynge, it helpeth not to be swift: in batayll, it helpeth not to be stronge: to fedynge, it helpeth not to be wyse: to riches, it helpeth not to be sutyll: to be had in fauoure, it helpeth not to be connynge: but that all lyeth in tyme & fortune.
  • Isa 30:16 : 16 Notwithstondinge ye regarde it not, but ye will saie: No, for thus are we costrayned to fle vpo horses. (And therfore shall ye fle) we must ryde vpon swift beastes, and therfore youre persecutours shal yet be swifter.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Assur shalbe no more oure helper, nether will we ryde vpon horses eny more. As for the workes of oure hondes, we wil nomore call vpon them: For it is thou that art oure God, thou shewest euer mercy vnto the fatherlesse.