Isaiah 2:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 146:3 : 3 Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
  • Ps 144:3-4 : 3 LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that you make account of him! 4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? And the son of man, that you visit him?
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the islands as a very little thing.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely 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.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the 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.
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
  • Job 7:15-21 : 15 so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him? 18 And that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? 19 How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

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  • Ps 146:3-4
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    3 Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

    4 His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3 LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that you make account of him!

    4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14 If He sets His heart upon man, if He gathers to Himself His spirit and His breath,

    15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

  • 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

  • 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the rugged rocks, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.

  • Isa 2:10-11
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    10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty.

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

  • 12 Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

    6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • 10 In His hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

  • 6 How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm?

  • 9 Surely 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.

  • Job 14:2-3
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    2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

    3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD.

  • 3 Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • 29 You hide Your face, they are troubled: You take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

  • Job 15:13-14
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    13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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

  • 15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

  • 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

  • 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

  • 11 Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

  • 25 The fear of man brings a snare; but whoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

  • 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

  • 12 I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man who will die, and of the son of man who will be made like grass;

  • 3 Talk no more so proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

  • 18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

    48 What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.

  • 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

  • 11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

  • 3 As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

  • 17 They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • 24 Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

  • 21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

  • 23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

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    2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity, and seek after lies? Selah.

  • 4 Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?

  • 11 Shall not his excellence make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?

  • 7 And the 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.

  • 17 Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every craftsman is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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    4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? And the son of man, that you visit him?

  • 19 For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.

  • 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.