New Revised Standard Version
O grant us help against the foe, for human help is worthless.

Contemporary English Version
Help us defeat our enemies! No one else can rescue us.

New American Bible
Give us aid against the foe; worthless is human help.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

give

Psalm 20:1 Unto the end. A psalm for David. [2] May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.

for vain

Psalm 146:3-5 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. . . .

Job 9:13 God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.

Job 16:2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Isaiah 30:3-6 And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame. . . .

Isaiah 31:3 Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together.

Jeremiah 17:5-8 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. . . .

Lamentations 4:17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.