1. They regarded him as a broken reed.

2. In her intemperate husband, Mrs Fang has a broken reed.

3. 16 In her intemperate husband, Mrs Fang has a broken reed.

4. You lean upon broken reed, if you trust to their compassion.

5. Don't trust him; he has been proved to be a broken reed.

6. You lean upon a broken reed, if you trust to their compassion.

7. He let me down at the last minute and turned out to be a broken reed.

8. Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.