Isaiah 2:22

Cease yourselves from man, || Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, || For—in what is he esteemed?

Literal Standard 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

21To enter into cavities of the rocks, || And into clefts of the high places, || Because of the fear of YHWH, || And because of the honor of His excellence, || In His rising to terrify the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:7And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature.

Job 7:15And my soul chooses strangling, || Death rather than my bones.

Psalms 8:4What [is] man that You remember him? The son of man that You inspect him?

Psalms 144:3YHWH, what [is] man that You know him? The son of man, that You esteem him?

Isaiah 40:15Behold, nations [are] as a drop from a bucket, || And have been reckoned as small dust of the balance, || Behold, He takes up islands as a small thing.

James 4:14who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing;

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 →

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