Bible verse

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Isaiah 2:22 · BSB

Isaiah 2:22 in context

The verses around it, from Isaiah 2.

18 and the idols will vanish completely.

19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

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Isaiah 2:22 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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