Curse and Blessing

This is what the Lord says:

Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind.(A)
He makes human flesh his strength,(B)
and his heart turns from the Lord.
He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;(C)
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.(D)
The person who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.(E)

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