Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord.
Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, And are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.
Surely men of low degree are a vapor, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogether lighter than vapor.
All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
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 being.
As long as my breath is in me, And the breath of God in my nostrils,
All nations before Him are as nothing, And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid Of a man who will die, And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?
So now we call the proud blessed, For those who do wickedness are raised up; They even tempt God and go free.’ ”