Isaiah 2:22
Good News Translation
Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?

New Revised Standard Version
Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?

Contemporary English Version
Stop trusting the power of humans. They are all going to die, so how can they help?

New American Bible
As for you, stop worrying about mortals, in whose nostrils is but a breath; for of what worth are they?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

cease

Psalm 62:9 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Psalm 146:3 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

whose

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 7:22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

Job 27:3 As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

for wherein

Job 7:15-21 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. . . .

Psalm 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Psalm 144:3,4 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? . . .

Context
The Day of Reckoning
21And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth. 22Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.
Cross References
James 4:14
Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Psalm 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Psalm 144:3
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

Psalm 146:3
In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Isaiah 40:15
Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.

Isaiah 40:17
All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 51:12
I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

Jeremiah 17:5
Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

Malachi 3:15
Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

Isaiah 2:21
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