What does Isaiah 2:22 mean?? -Stop trusting in man who has but breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Question

Who is that person??

Answer 1

The word "man" here is plural, as in mankind. It describes the race of man, not a particular person. The previous passages speak of what men will do when they encounter the glory of the Lord. This passage is a warning to believers to stop trusting in the limited knowledge of mankind (who is, after all, mortal and of limited knowledge) and trust in the Lord BEFORE all of the preceding happens.

Answer 2

On that day of Jehovah’s judgment against man’s old order, what will worldly-minded men do? Being faced with the deteriorating earth-wide conditions, they will lose faith in and turn away from religious things and will discard them as worthless, valueless. They will consider as being of no account the professional religionists, who are nothing more than men dependent upon the air they breathe in through their nostrils. Being now disillusioned about such ones, men will turn exclusively to materialistic things. Abandoning religion of all worldly kinds, they will seek refuge, protection and preservation in nonspiritual, earthly organizations that they hope will shield them like mountains and crags. They will trust no longer in religious men whom they once regarded as gods, as having connections with the superhuman spirit realm.

Answer 3

Mankind in general or the governments themselves.
Our trust should be in Jehovah only.
Man may want to do what is right, but he lives only for a short time and all the good he can do will be undone by the one who replaces him.

Answer 4

"These words are clearly connected with what goes before, and have been improperly separated from them by some interpreters. For Isaiah, after having addressed the ungodly in threatenings concerning the judgment of God, exhorts them to refrain from deluding themselves by groundless confidence; as if he had said, “I see that you are blinded and intoxicated by false hope, so that no argument can prevail with you; and this you do, because you claim too much for yourselves. But man is nothing; and you have to do with God, who can reduce the whole world to nothing by a single act of his will.”

John Calvin, commentary on Isaiah 2:22.

Answer 5

Read the verses in context....
Isa 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isa 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isa 2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isa 2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Does verse 21 sound familiar??
Rev 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
The unbelievers, unrighteous men, will be caught like a snare at the coming of the Lord. Interpret scripture with scripture, as I've given the example above, and you'll have your answer.

Answer 6

"he" is mankind in general. God tells us to only place 100% confidence in Him.