Isaiah 40:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁷ All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are regarded by Him as less than nothing and emptiness (waste, futility, and worthlessness).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ All the nations are like nothing before God. They are viewed as less than nothing and emptiness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing and vanity.

Isaiah 40:17 Cross References

Job 25:6

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Psalm 62:9

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.

Isaiah 2:22

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

Isaiah 29:7

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against A´ri-el, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

Daniel 4:32

And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.