Psalms 106:16-20

Psalms 106:16-20. And Aaron the saint of the LORD. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

What a descent it was to come down from worshipping the spiritual God who had wrought such wonders for them, to the adoration of "an ox that eateth grass." When we put our trust in men, instead of in God, we might have the same sort of ironical description applied to us, "They trusted in a man that must die, and in the son of man that is but dust." Whenever we forsake the Lord, and put our confidence in anyone else, we are fools indeed.