# Son of Man (Not Jesus)

**Ezekiel**: The term "son of man" is used extensively in the Book of Ezekiel, where God addresses the prophet Ezekiel as "son of man." This usage is a way of emphasizing Ezekiel's humanity.

* Example: Ezekiel 2:1, "He said to me, '**Son of man**, stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.'"

**Daniel**: In the Book of Daniel, "son of man" appears in a vision that has been subject to various interpretations, some seeing it as a reference to a future messianic figure.

* Daniel 7:13-14, "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like **a son of man**, coming with the clouds of heaven..."

**Psalms**: The term is used in Psalms in a way that reflects human frailty in contrast to God's eternal nature.

* Psalm 8:4, "What is mankind that you are mindful of them, **and the son of man** that you care for them?"

**Book of Numbers**: In the Book of Numbers, the term "son of man" is used in a speech by Balaam.

* Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that he should lie, not **a son of man,** that he should change his mind..."

**Jeremiah**: The prophet Jeremiah uses the term in his prophecies.

* Jeremiah 49:18, "As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbor cities, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall **a son of man** dwell in it."

**Isaiah**: In the Book of Isaiah, the phrase is used in a poetic context.

* Isaiah 51:12, "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the **son of man** which shall be made as grass;"