Isaiah 2:22 Cease you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ? "His breath is in his nostrils," puffed out every moment, soon gone for good and all. Man is a dying creature, and may die quickly; our nostrils, in which our breath is, are of the outward parts of the body; what is there is like one standing at the door ready to depart. Nay, the doors of the nostrils are always open; the breath in them may slip away, ere we are aware, in a moment; wherein then is man to be accounted of? Alas, no reckoning is to be made of him; for he is not what he seems to be, — what he pretends to be, what we fancy him to be. ( M. Henry.) Parallel Verses KJV: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?WEB: Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he? |
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