Isaiah 2:22

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 146:3 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
  • Ps 144:3-4 : 3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
  • Job 7:15-21 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones. 16 I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him, 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

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  • Ps 146:3-4
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    3Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

    4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Job 7:17
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    17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

    4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    74%

    14If he set his heart upon himself, [If] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

    15All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

  • Job 14:10
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    10But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

  • Isa 2:21
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    21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

  • Isa 2:10-11
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    10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.

    11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [

    6Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • Job 12:10
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    10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

  • Job 25:6
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    6How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

  • Job 14:2-3
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    2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • Jer 17:5
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    5Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • Ps 104:29
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    29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.

  • Job 15:13-14
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    13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

    14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Ps 103:15
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    15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

  • Job 4:17
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    17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

  • Prov 29:25
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    25The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.

  • Isa 30:28
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    28and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.

  • Isa 51:12
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    12I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.

  • Isa 40:18
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    18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

    48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? {{Selah

  • Jas 4:14
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    14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • Ps 39:11
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    11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. {{Selah

  • Job 27:3
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    3(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

  • Ps 135:17
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    17They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • Eccl 3:21
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    21Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

  • Jer 10:23
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    23O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

  • Ps 4:2
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    2O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? [How long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? {{Selah

  • Job 10:4
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    4Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?

  • Job 13:11
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    11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?

  • Gen 2:7
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    7And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • Jer 51:17
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    17Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • Ps 8:4
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    4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  • Eccl 3:19
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    19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

  • Prov 27:2
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    2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.