Isaiah 40:17

New English Translation

All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

Cross References

Job 25:6

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, who is only a worm!”

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!

Psalm 62:9

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

Isaiah 29:7

It will be like a dream, a night vision. There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel, those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her.

Daniel 4:32

You will be driven from human society, and you will live with the wild animals. You will be fed grass like oxen, and seven periods of time will pass by for you before you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.”

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.