Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Put no more trust in man,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?

New American Standard Bible

Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;
For why should he be esteemed?

King James Version

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

International Standard Version

"Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they really worth?"

A Conservative Version

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?

American Standard Version

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Amplified


Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];
For why should he be esteemed?

Bible in Basic English

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

Darby Translation

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

Julia Smith Translation

Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

King James 2000

Turn away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for of what account is he?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?

Modern King James verseion

Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostril; for in what is he to be esteemed?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Fear not, then, any man whose breath is in his nostrils - for what is he?

NET Bible

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

New Heart English Bible

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

The Emphasized Bible

Cease ye from the son of earth, In whose nostrils is but a breath, - For wherein to be reckoned upon, is he?

Webster

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

World English Bible

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Youngs Literal Translation

Cease for you from man, Whose breath is in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ye from man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

נשׁמה 
N@shamah 
Usage: 24

References

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

The Day Of The Lord's Judgment

21 They will go into the caves of the rocks
and the crevices in the cliffs,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from His majestic splendor,
when He rises to terrify the earth.
22 Put no more trust in man,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?



Cross References

Psalm 146:3

Do not trust in nobles,
in man, who cannot save.

Psalm 8:4

what is man that You remember him,
the son of man that You look after him?

Psalm 144:3-4

Lord, what is man, that You care for him,
the son of man, that You think of him?

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the Lord says:

The man who trusts in mankind,
who makes human flesh his strength
and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed.

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is still in me
and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,

James 4:14

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 7:22

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils—everything on dry land died.

Job 7:15-21

so that I prefer strangling
death rather than life in this body.

Psalm 62:9

Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.

Isaiah 40:15

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

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