Isaiah 2:22
Withdraw yourselves [then] from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; because, for what is he to be esteemed?
Leeser Tanakh
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 the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
Job 7:15So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine.
Psalms 8:4(8:5) What is the mortal, that thou rememberest him? and the son of man, that thou thinkest of him:
Psalms 144:3Lord, what is man, that thou takest cognizance of him: the son of a mortal, that thou regardest him!
Isaiah 40:15Behold, nations are as a drop out of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance are they accounted: behold, isles are like the flying dust.
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 →