Psalms 62:9

⁷ My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

⁸ Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

¹⁰ Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

¹¹ God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,

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Sammenlign

ÅB: Bare tomhet er menneskenes barn, bare løgn er mannens sønner; i vektskålen stiger de til værs, de er tomhet alle sammen.
OTB: Mennesker av lav rang er bare et pust, og de av høy rang er en illusjon;
På vektskålen stiger de opp.
Sammen er de lettere enn luft.
B1930: Bare tomhet er menneskenes barn, bare løgn er mannens sønner; i vektskålen stiger de til værs, de er tomhet alle sammen.

BSB: Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
KJV: Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
WEB: Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
ASV: Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
DARBY: Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than vanity.
BLB: Only a vapor [are] the sons of a man, a lie the sons of a man—in the scales they go up as a vapor together.

Psalms 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
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Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
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Isaiah 40:15
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
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Psalms 118:9
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
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Psalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
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1 Samuel 23:19–20
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
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1 Samuel 18:21–26
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
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Romans 3:4
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
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