Isaiah 2:22
So, do not trust that people will save you, because people are as powerless as [MET] their own breath. People certainly cannot help you [RHQ]!
Translation for Translators
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 Yahweh God took some soil and formed a man. He breathed into the man’s nostrils his own breath that gives life, and as a result the man became a living person.
Job 7:15with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to death than to continue to be alive being only a bunch of bones.
Psalms 8:4it is amazing to me that [RHQ] you think about people, that you are concerned about us humans!
Psalms 144:3Yahweh, we people are very insignificant/unimportant, so why ◄are you concerned/do you care about us► [RHQ]? It is amazing to me that you pay attention to humans.
Isaiah 40:15Yahweh considers that the nations are as insignificant as [MET] one drop from a bucket full of water. They are as insignificant as dust on scales. He is able to weigh islands as though they weighed no more than grains of sand.
James 4:14You should not talk like that, because you do not know what will happen tomorrow, and you do not know how long you will live! Your life is short [MET], like a mist that appears for a short time and then disappears.
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 →