Amos 2:14

Modern English Version

Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain his strength, nor will the warrior save his life.

Cross References

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as the giving up of breath.”

Psalm 33:16

No king is saved by a great army; a mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I observed under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful; but time and chance happen to them all.

Jeremiah 25:35

The shepherds will have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

Jeremiah 39:4

When Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them and all the men of war, then they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out the way of the Arabah.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

Amos 5:9

the One who flashes destruction against the strong, so that destruction comes against the fortress.