12 Bible Verses about Mere Men

and saying, "Men, why are you doing these [things]? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news [that] you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things [that are] in them--

"I, I [am] he who comforts you; who [are] you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of [the] son of humankind? He is {sacrificed} [as] grass!

Grass withers; [the] flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people [are] grass.

A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.

Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.

Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.

So then, let no one boast in people. For all [things] are yours,

O Yahweh, put them in fear. Let [the] nations know they [are merely] human. Selah

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

"and you [are] my flock, the flock of my pasture. You [are] {my people}; I [am] your God," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.'"

{How much less} for a human being [who is] a maggot, and {a human} [who is] a worm?"

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.