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Isaiah 2:22
Isaiah 2:22 is verse 22 of Isaiah chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
King James Version
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
World English Bible
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
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Isaiah 2:20–22 · Berean Standard Bible
20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
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.
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.
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 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
Job 7:18that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?
Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
Psalms 144:3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.