22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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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.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
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.
LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! …
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The prophet here goes on to show what a desolation would be brought upon their land when God should have forsaken them. This may refer particularly to their destruction by the Chaldeans first, and afterwards by the Romans, or it may have a general respect to the method God takes to awaken and humble proud sinners, and to put them out of conceit with that which they delighted in and depended on mor…
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