Isaiah 2:22 Cross References - LEB

²² Turn away from humanity, who has breath in its nostrils,* for by* what is it esteemed?

⁷ when* Yahweh God formed the man* of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

²² Everything in whose nostrils was _⌊the breath of life_⌋,* among all that was on dry land, died.

¹⁵ So* my inner self* will choose* strangling— death more than my _⌊existence_⌋.* ¹⁶ I loathe my life; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days are a breath. ¹⁷ "What is a human being that you make him great and that _⌊you fix your mind on him_⌋,* ¹⁸ so that* you visit him _⌊every morning_⌋,* you test him _⌊every moment_⌋?* ¹⁹ _⌊How long_⌋* will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow* my spit? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that* I have become a burden to myself?* ²¹ And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but* _⌊I will be no more_⌋."*

³ For _⌊as long as_⌋* my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose,

⁴ what is a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

⁹ 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.

³ O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him? ⁴ Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.

³ Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.

¹⁵ Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket, and they are counted like dust of the balances! Look! He weighs the islands like a thin covering.

⁵ Thus says Yahweh,
"Cursed is the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his _⌊strength_⌋,* and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.

¹⁴ you who do not know _⌊what will happen tomorrow_⌋*, _⌊what your life will be like_⌋*. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.