Isaiah 2:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² [[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Cease to trust in [weak, frail, and dying] man, whose breath is in his nostrils [for so short a time]; in what sense can he be counted as having intrinsic worth?

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Common English Bible

²² Quit admiring the human race, who breathe through their nostrils. Why should they be admired?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted.

Isaiah 2:22 Cross References

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.

Psalm 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Psalm 8:4

what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?

Isaiah 40:15

Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Genesis 7:22

everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

Genesis 2:7

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

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

Isaiah 40:17

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

Isaiah 51:12

I, I am he who comforts you; why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die, a human being who fades like grass?

Malachi 3:15

Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”