Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
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.
Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment? How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
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