Verse 17

A horse is a vaine helpe, and shall not deliuer any by his great strength.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.
  • Prov 21:31 : 31 The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but saluation is of the Lord.
  • Ps 147:10 : 10 He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in the legs of man.
  • Judg 4:15 : 15 And the Lorde destroyed Sisera and all his charets, & al his hoste with the edge of the sword before Barak, so that Sisera lighted downe off his charet, and fled away on his feete.
  • 2 Kgs 7:6-7 : 6 For the Lord had caused the campe of the Aramites to heare a noyse of charets & a noise of horses, and a noise of a great armie, so that they sayde one to another, Beholde, the King of Israel hath hired against vs the Kings of the Hittites, and the Kings of the Egyptians to come vpon vs. 7 Wherefore they arose, and fled in the twilight, and left their tentes and their horses, and their asses, euen the campe as it was, and fledde for their liues.
  • Job 39:19-25 : 19 (39:22) Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying? 20 (39:23) Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull. 21 (39:24) He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man. 22 (39:25) He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde, 23 (39:26) Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield. 24 (39:27) He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet. 25 (39:28) He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and I sawe vnder the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of vnderstanding, neither yet fauour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all.
  • Isa 30:16 : 16 For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 (14:4) Asshur shal not saue vs, neither wil we ride vpon horses, neither will we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.