Isaiah 2:22

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 146:3 : 3 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
  • Ps 144:3-4 : 3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him? 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Yahweh 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 the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
  • Job 7:15-21 : 15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him, 18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? 19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

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    3 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

    4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • Job 7:17
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    17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

    4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Job 14:10
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    10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

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

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

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

  • Ps 49:12
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    12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

    6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Job 12:10
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    10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

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

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

  • Job 14:2-3
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    2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Jer 17:5
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    5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

  • Job 18:3
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    3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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    29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the 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? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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

  • Isa 40:7
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    7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

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

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

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    25 The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

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    28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

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    12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

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    3 "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

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

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    47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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    14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

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    11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

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    3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

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    17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

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    24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

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    21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

  • Jer 10:23
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    23 Yahweh, 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 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

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

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    11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

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    7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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    17 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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    4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

  • Eccl 3:19
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    19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

  • Prov 27:2
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    2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.