Isaiah 2:22

In 10 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Cease yourselves from man, || Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, || For—in what is he esteemed?

YLT

Cease for you from man, Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, For — in what is he esteemed?

DBY

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

DRC

Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

GNV

Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to be esteemed?

JPS

Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!

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חִדְל֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מִן־הָ֣אָדָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְשָׁמָ֖ה בְּאַפּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־בַמֶּ֥ה נֶחְשָׁ֖ב הֽוּא׃

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• Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
• Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
• James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Psalms 144:3–4O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
• Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
• Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• Isaiah 40:15Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
• Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
• Genesis 7:22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
• Job 7:15–21so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. What is man that You should exalt him, that You should…

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