Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And 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.
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Psalms 8:4what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?
Psalms 144:3LORD, what is man, that thou take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou make account of him?
Isaiah 40:15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
James 4:14men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:11-22
The Doom of Idolaters. ( b. c. 758.) 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord , and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all… Read the whole commentary →