Isaiah 2:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Isaiah 2:22 Cross References

Genesis 2:7

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.

Genesis 7:22

all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Job 27:3

(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils;)

Psalm 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Psalm 8:4

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Isaiah 40:15

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.

Isaiah 40:17

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

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.

James 4:14

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.