Isaiah 2:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 146:3 : 3 Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Individuals Are Challenged to Put Their Trust in the Lord The LORD says,“I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the LORD.
  • Ps 144:3-4 : 3 O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them? 4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
  • Job 7:15-21 : 15 so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life. 16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor! 17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them? 18 And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment? 19 Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle? 20 If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you? 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

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  • Ps 146:3-4
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    3Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!

    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Job 7:17
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    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • Job 14:10
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    10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

  • Isa 2:21
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    21so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

  • Isa 2:10-11
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    10Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the LORD, from his royal splendor!

    11Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

  • Job 12:10
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    10in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

  • Job 25:6
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    6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

  • Job 14:2-3
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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Jer 17:5
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    5Individuals Are Challenged to Put Their Trust in the Lord The LORD says,“I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the LORD.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

  • Job 15:13-14
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    13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

    14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Ps 103:15
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    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

  • Isa 40:7
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    7The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

  • Job 4:17
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    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

  • Prov 29:25
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    25The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be set on high.

  • Isa 30:28
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    28His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.

  • Isa 51:12
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    12“I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly. Proud talk should not come out of your mouth! For the LORD is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.

  • Isa 40:18
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    18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

    48No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)

  • Jas 4:14
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    14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

  • Ps 39:11
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    11You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)

  • Job 27:3
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    3for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

  • Ps 135:17
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    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

  • Eccl 3:21
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    21Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

  • Jer 10:23
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    23LORD, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.

  • Ps 4:2
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    2You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)

  • Job 10:4
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    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

  • Job 13:11
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    11Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?

  • Gen 2:7
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    7The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

  • Jer 51:17
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    17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

  • Ps 8:4
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    4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?

  • Eccl 3:19
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    19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

  • Prov 27:2
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    2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.