For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, and [there shall be] a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.

In vain shall they labor [in seeking] for a people which shall not profit them for help, but [shall be] for a shame and reproach.

The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain; tell them, This your consolation is vain.

Behold, you trust on this bruised staff of reed, on Egypt; [as soon] as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt and all that trust in him.

See now, are you trusting for yourself on this broken staff of reed, [even] upon Egypt? Whosoever shall lean upon it, it shall even go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

When they took hold of you with their hand, you broke [them;] and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on you, you utterly broke them, and crushed the loins of them all.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

but let him that boasts boast in this: the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercises mercy, and judgment, and righteousness upon the earth; for in these things is My pleasure, says the Lord.

Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: