Isaiah 2:22

WEB

²²Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

KJV

²²Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

BSB

²²Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

FBV

²²Don't bother trusting human beings who only live for a while.^[+] How much do they count?

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Extra References

Jeremiah 17:5

⁵The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD.

Psalms 146:3

³Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

James 4:14

¹⁴Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Psalms 144:3-4

³LORD, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him? ⁴Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Psalms 8:4

⁴what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Genesis 2:7

⁷The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Psalms 62:9

⁹Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Isaiah 40:15

¹⁵Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Job 27:3

³(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Genesis 7:22

²²All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.