Verse 22

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.