Isaiah 2:22
New Living Translation
22 Don’t put your trust in mere humans.
They are as frail as breath.
What good are they?
Jeremiah 17:5
New Living Translation
Wisdom from the Lord
5 This is what the Lord says:
“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,
who rely on human strength
and turn their hearts away from the Lord.
Psalm 146:3
New Living Translation
3 Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
James 4:14
New Living Translation
14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
Read full chapter
Psalm 144:3-4
New Living Translation
3 O Lord, what are human beings that you should notice them,
mere mortals that you should think about them?
4 For they are like a breath of air;
their days are like a passing shadow.
Psalm 8:4
New Living Translation
4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?[a]
Footnotes
- 8:4 Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him?
Isaiah 40:15
New Living Translation
15 No, for all the nations of the world
are but a drop in the bucket.
They are nothing more
than dust on the scales.
He picks up the whole earth
as though it were a grain of sand.
Psalm 62:9
New Living Translation
9 Common people are as worthless as a puff of wind,
and the powerful are not what they appear to be.
If you weigh them on the scales,
together they are lighter than a breath of air.
Genesis 7:22
New Living Translation
22 Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.
Read full chapter
Genesis 2:7
New Living Translation
7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Read full chapter
Job 27:3
New Living Translation
3 As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,
Job 7:15-21
New Living Translation
15 I would rather be strangled—
rather die than suffer like this.
16 I hate my life and don’t want to go on living.
Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.
17 “What are people, that you should make so much of us,
that you should think of us so often?
18 For you examine us every morning
and test us every moment.
19 Why won’t you leave me alone,
at least long enough for me to swallow!
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
O watcher of all humanity?
Why make me your target?
Am I a burden to you?[a]
21 Why not just forgive my sin
and take away my guilt?
For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.
When you look for me, I will be gone.”
Footnotes
- 7:20 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads target, so that I am a burden to myself?
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
