Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 17:5
A church father on this verse
“Then, since many words have been gone through, there was indeed something to say about each of the things spoken, but time does not allow, as it presses upon us. Let us therefore speak on the passage read next: "Cursed is the man who has his hope on man." From this †, against those who suppose that the Son of God, the…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.
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In context
— Jeremiah 17:5 —
6And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
7But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be.