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Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

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ASV

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

KJV

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
חִדְל֤וּchid.LuceaseH2308 →
לָכֶם֙la.Khem<for> yourselves
מִן־min-fromH4480 →
הָ֣אָדָ֔םha.'a.Dam<the> humankindH120 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhomH834 →
נְשָׁמָ֖הne.sha.MahbreathH5397 →
בְּאַפּ֑וֹbe.'a.Po[is] in nostril[s] hisH639 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
בַמֶּ֥הva.Meh<in> how?H4100 →
נֶחְשָׁ֖בnech.Shavto be accountedH2803 →
הֽוּא׃ פHu'[is] heH1931 →

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Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.Isaiah 51:12“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?James 4:14You 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.Psalms 144:3–4O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.2 Chronicles 14:11Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.Isaiah 40:15Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.Isaiah 30:7Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.Genesis 7:22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,Job 7:15–21so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.Psalms 108:12Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.Psalms 146:4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,Luke 8:43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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