Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Holman Bible
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 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?
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?
Themes
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
Man » Redemption of » Trust in
Interlinear
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 2:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Day Of The Lord's Judgment
21 so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth. 22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
Psalm 8:4
Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,
Psalm 144:3-4
O Lord, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?
Jeremiah 17:5
The Lord says, "I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.
Job 27:3
for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
James 4:14
You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
Genesis 2:7
The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 7:22
Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Job 7:15-21
so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
Psalm 62:9
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
Isaiah 40:15
Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.