It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Princes. For vain is the salvation of man, Psalm lix. 31., and Jeremias xvii. 5. (Calmet)
So neither can man hurt those whom God protects, Romans viii. 31. (Haydock)