Trust in one acting deceitfully in a day of distress is like a bad tooth and a slipping foot.
As one removing a garment in a cold day, and as vinegar on soda, so a singer with songs on a bad heart.
And Egypt, vainly and emptily they help. So I have called to this: Their strength is to sit still.
Behold, you trust on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it goes into his palm and pierces it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
In my first defense no one came to my aid, but all deserted me. May it not be reckoned to them.