Psalms 118:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

Psalms 118:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 40:4
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Jeremiah 17:5-7
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. …
Psalms 62:8-9
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. …
Micah 7:5-7
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-18)

It appears here, as often as elsewhere, that David had his heart full of the goodness of God. He loved to think of it, loved to speak of it, and was very solicitous that God might have the praise of it and others the comfort of it. The more our hearts are impressed with a sense of God’s goodness the more they will be enlarged in all manner of obedience. In these verses, I. He celebrates God’s merc…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8-9. Even the most powerful men are less to be trusted than God.