This is another psalm that covers the same ground, using recognizable lines from earlier psalms or familiar material from other parts of the Old Testament. But at this point, I won’t worry about it.
Still, “Do not put your trust in princes, / Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. / His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; / In that very day his plans perish.” It sounds quite familiar, huh?
But that isn’t anywhere else in the Hebrew Bible — or is it? Well, in Isaiah and Ecclesiastes, I’m guessing, also in the Gospels for sure, at least the one that refers to Yeshua ben Yosef as “son of man.”
And then there’s this verse: “The Lord watches over the strangers; / He relieves the fatherless and widow; / But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.” Weren’t those Yeshua’s words?
Actually, the reason I noticed those passages, in particular, was because they made me wonder if folks who read the Bible literally these days still believe what those verses say. Well, do they?