Isaiah 2:22
What does Isaiah 2:22 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 2:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Cease for you from man, Whose breath <FI>is<Fi> in his nostrils, For--in what is he esteemed?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?
Context
v.21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
- Job 27:3
(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
- Isaiah 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
- Genesis 7:22
all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
- James 4:14
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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