Now, O king, let the prohibition be issued over your signature, immutable and irrevocable according to the law of the Medes and Persians.”
Better to take refuge in the Lord than to put one’s trust in princes.
Put no trust in princes, in children of Adam powerless to save.
You have been snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth;
As for you, stop worrying about mortals, in whose nostrils is but a breath; for of what worth are they?