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Isaiah 2:22

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

KJV

Quiescite ergo ab homine, cujus spiritus in naribus ejus est, quia excelsus reputatus est ipse.

Vulgate

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

ASV

חִדְל֤וּ לָ/כֶם֙ מִן הָ֣/אָדָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְשָׁמָ֖ה בְּ/אַפּ֑/וֹ כִּֽי בַ/מֶּ֥ה נֶחְשָׁ֖ב הֽוּא

Hebrew

Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶחְדָּ֑ל
'chdl
verb · 59×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
וֹ
v
noun · 275×
חָשַׁ֖ב
chshb
verb · 123×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
נְשָׁמָֽה
nshmh
noun · 24×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 14:11 — And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name
  • Gen 2:7 — And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 2:7 — And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 7:22 — All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
  • Isa 3:1 — For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
  • Isa 30:7 — For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
  • Isa 40:15 — Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
  • Isa 51:12 — I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
  • Jas 4:14 — Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • Jer 17:5 — Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
  • Jer 17:5 — Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
  • Job 4:21 — Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
  • Job 7:15 — So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
  • Job 27:3 — All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
  • Job 27:3 — All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
  • Luke 8:43 — And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
  • Ps 8:4 — What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
  • Ps 62:9 — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 108:12 — Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
  • Ps 144:3 — LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
  • Ps 146:3 — Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
  • Ps 146:3 — Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
  • Ps 146:4 — His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.