Isaiah 2:22 “Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of…”

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to be esteemed?

Darby Translation

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

Young's Literal Translation

Cease for you from man, Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, For — in what is he esteemed?

Bible in Basic English

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

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Cross references

“Cease”

Jeremiah 17:5 Psalm 146:3 Psalm 62:9

Jeremiah 17:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Psalm 146:3 · BSB

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Psalm 62:9 · BSB

Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

“whose”

Genesis 2:7 Genesis 7:22 Job 27:3

Genesis 2:7 · BSB

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 7:22 · BSB

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Job 27:3 · BSB

as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

“for wherein”

Psalm 8:4 Job 7:15–21 Psalm 144:3 Psalm 144:4

Psalm 8:4 · BSB

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Job 7:15–21 · BSB

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Psalm 144:3 · BSB

O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

Psalm 144:4 · BSB

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Also

James 4:14 Isaiah 40:15

James 4:14 · BSB

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Isaiah 40:15 · BSB

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Read Isaiah 2