Isaiah 2:22

New International Reader's Version

Stop trusting in mere human beings, who can’t help you. They only live for a little while. What good are they?

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed a man. He made him out of the dust of the ground. God breathed the breath of life into him. And the man became a living person.

Genesis 7:22

Every breathing thing on dry land died.

Job 27:3

As long as I have life and God gives me breath,

Psalm 146:3

Don’t put your trust in human leaders. Don’t trust in people who can’t save you.

Psalm 62:9

Surely ordinary people are only a breath. Important people are not what they seem to be. If they were weighed on a scale, they wouldn’t amount to anything. Together they are only a breath.

Psalm 8:4

What are human beings that you think about them? What is a son of man that you take care of him?

Isaiah 40:15

The nations are only a drop in a bucket to him. He considers them as nothing but dust on the scales. He weighs the islands as if they were only fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

To him, all the nations don’t amount to anything. He considers them to be worthless. In fact, they are less than nothing in his sight.

Isaiah 51:12

The Lord says to his people, “I comfort you because of who I am. Why are you afraid of mere human beings? They are like grass that dries up.

Jeremiah 17:5

The Lord says, “Those who trust in human beings are under my curse. They depend on human strength. Their hearts turn away from me.

Malachi 3:15

But now we call proud people blessed. Things go well with those who do what is evil. And God doesn’t even punish those who test him.’ ”

James 4:14

You don’t even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist that appears for a little while. Then it disappears.