Isaiah 2:22
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Read in contextJames 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Read in contextPsalms 144:3–4
LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Read in contextPsalms 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Read in contextGenesis 2:7
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 soul.
Read in contextPsalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
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