Isaiah 2:22
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.
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- KJV
- Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
- WEB
- Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
- ASV
- Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
- DARBY
- Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?
- BLB
- Cease yourselves from man, whose breath [is] in his nostril, for of what account [is] he?
- ÅB
- Hold da opp med å stole på mennesket, i hvis nese det bare er et pust! Hva er han å akte for?
[^1]: 1MO 49, 1. JER 3, 17. MIK 4, 1 fg. SKR 8, 20 fg. - OTB
- Slutt å stole på bare mennesker, som bare har et pust i neseborene. Hvorfor holde dem i aktelse?
- B1930
- Hold da op med å stole på mennesket, i hvis nese det bare er et pust! Hvad er han å akte for?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 17:5
This 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.
Read in contextPsalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Read in contextJames 4:14
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.
Read in contextPsalms 144:3–4
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Read in contextPsalms 8:4
what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
Read in contextGenesis 2:7
Then 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.
Read in contextPsalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:15
Surely 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.
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