Isaiah 2:22

New International Version

Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 7:22

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Job 27:3

as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Psalm 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalm 8:4

what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?

Isaiah 40:15

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass,

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Malachi 3:15

But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’ ”

James 4:14

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.