Verse 22

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

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 the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
  • Ps 144:3-4 : 3 LORD, 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. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 All the while 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 of a bucket, and are counted 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: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD 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 life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
  • Job 7:15-21 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; 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 thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against 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 sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.