Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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?

Holman Bible

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

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 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 to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of Jehovah and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly. 22 Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostril; for in what is he to be esteemed?

Cross References

Psalm 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no salvation.

Psalm 8:4

what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?

Psalm 144:3-4

O Jehovah, what is man that You take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that You esteem him?

Jeremiah 17:5

So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

Job 27:3

As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

James 4:14

who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.

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.

Genesis 7:22

all who breathed the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Job 7:15-21

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the scales; behold, He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.

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