Isaiah 2:22

God's Word

Stop trusting people. Their life is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the earth  and blew the breath of life into his nostrils. The man became a living being.

Genesis 7:22

Everything on dry land (every living, breathing creature) died.

Job 27:3

‘As long as there is one breath ⌞left⌟ in me and God’s breath fills my nostrils,

Psalm 146:3

Do not trust influential people, mortals who cannot help you.

Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind.

Psalm 8:4

what is a mortal that you remember him or the Son of Man that you take care of him?

Isaiah 40:15

The nations are like a drop in a bucket and are considered to be like dust on a scale. The weight of the islands is like fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations amount to nothing in his presence. He considers them less than nothing and worthless.

Isaiah 51:12

I alone am the one who comforts you. Why, then, are you afraid of mortals, who must die, of humans, who are like grass?

Jeremiah 17:5

“This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Malachi 3:15

So now we call arrogant people blessed. Not only are evildoers encouraged, they even test God and get away with it.’ ”

James 4:14

You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.