Isaiah 2:22
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22 [[Turn away from mortals,
who have only breath in their nostrils,
for of what account are they?]][a](A)
Jeremiah 17:5
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5 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)
Psalm 146:3
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3 Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortals, in whom there is no help.(A)
James 4:14
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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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Psalm 144:3-4
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3 O Lord, what are humans that you regard them,
or mortals that you think of them?(A)
4 They are like a breath;
their days are like a passing shadow.(B)
Psalm 8:4
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- 8.4 Heb son of man
Psalm 62:9
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9 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)
Job 27:3
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3 as long as my breath is in me
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
Genesis 7:22
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22 everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.(A)
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Genesis 2:7
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7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(A)
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- 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man
Isaiah 40:15
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15 Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket
and are accounted as dust on the scales;
see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.(A)
Job 7:15-21
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15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than this body.
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(A)
17 What are humans, that you make so much of them,
that you set your mind on them,(B)
18 visit them every morning,
test them every moment?
19 Will you not look away from me for a while,
let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?
Why have you made me your target?
Why have I become a burden to you?(C)
21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
you will seek me, but I shall not be.”(D)
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