Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 2:7Then 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.
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than these my bones.
Psalms 8:4(8-5) What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?
Psalms 144:3LORD, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that Thou makest account of him?
Isaiah 40:15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.
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 →