Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting in man, whose life-breath is in his nostrils, 1 for what does he amount to?
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.
Job 7:15so that I would choose strangling 1 and death rather than preserving these bones of mine. 1
Psalms 8:4Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, 1 or mankind that you pay attention to them? 1
Psalms 144:3Yahweh, what is man that you take notice of him 1 or the son of man that you think about him? 1
Isaiah 40:15Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded like the dust on the scales; 1 see, he weighs the isles as a speck. 1
James 4:14Who knows what will happen tomorrow, and what is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while 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 →