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22 [[Turn away from mortals,
    who have only breath in their nostrils,
    for of what account are they?]][a](A)

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  1. 2.22 Gk OL lack 2.22

22 Stop trusting in mere humans,(A)
    who have but a breath(B) in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?(C)

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

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Thus says the Lord:
Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals
    and make mere flesh their strength,
    whose hearts turn away from the Lord.(A)

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This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,(A)
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.(B)

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

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Do not put your trust in princes,
    in mortals, in whom there is no help.(A)

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Do not put your trust in princes,(A)
    in human beings,(B) who cannot save.

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

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14 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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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.

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O Lord, what are humans that you regard them,
    or mortals that you think of them?(A)
They are like a breath;
    their days are like a passing shadow.(B)

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Lord, what are human beings(A) that you care for them,
    mere mortals that you think of them?
They are like a breath;(B)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.(C)

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

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

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what are humans that you are mindful of them,
    mortals[a] that you care for them?(A)

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  1. 8.4 Heb son of man

what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[a](A)

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  1. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?

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

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Those of low estate are but a breath;
    those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
    they are together lighter than a breath.(A)

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Surely the lowborn(A) are but a breath,(B)
    the highborn are but a lie.
If weighed on a balance,(C) they are nothing;
    together they are only a breath.

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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.

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as long as my breath is in me
    and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

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as long as I have life within me,
    the breath of God(A) in my nostrils,

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All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

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22 everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.(A)

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22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life(A) in its nostrils died.

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

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