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

Cease {H2308} ye from man {H120}, whose breath {H5397} is in his nostrils {H639}: for wherein is he to be accounted of {H2803}?

Stop relying on man, in whose nostrils is a mere breath - after all, he doesn't count for much, does he?

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 17:5 (21 votes)

    ¶ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

  • Psalms 146:3 (18 votes)

    Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

  • James 4:14 (12 votes)

    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.

  • Psalms 144:3 (10 votes)

    LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

  • Psalms 144:4 (10 votes)

    Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Psalms 8:4 (8 votes)

    What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  • Genesis 7:22 (6 votes)

    All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.