KJV King James Version
Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
WEB World English Bible
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
ASV American Standard Version
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Cease for you from man, Whose breath is in his nostrils, For—in what is he esteemed?
Surrounding context — Isaiah 2
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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Jeremiah 17:5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.Psalm 146:3Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.James 4:14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.Psalm 144:3-4LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!Psalm 8:4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.Psalm 62:9Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.Isaiah 40:15Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.Job 27:3All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.Job 7:15-21So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
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