77 Bible Verses about Futility

Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope. Remember that my life is wind: mine eyes shall not turn back to see good

Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.

O Jehovah, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I shall know how I fail. Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.

The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field: The grass was dried up, the flower fell away: for the spirit of Jehovah blew upon it: surely the people grass.

(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)

It is one: for this, I said, The blameless one and the unjust one he finishes.

Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish. For the wind passed over upon it and it is not; and its place shall know it no more.

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?

For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings.

Jehovah knew the thoughts of man that they are vanity.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions. And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly elated; his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; not so his empty talk

We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly lifted up; his haughtiness and his pride, and his lifting up, and the elation of his heart I knew, says Jehovah, his wrath; and not thus; his empty talks did not so.

He has done strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thought of their heart. he has pulled down the powerful from thrones, and lifted up the

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the man who shall trust in man, and set flesh his arm, and shall turn away his heart from Jehovah.

Give to us help from straits, for vain the salvation of man.

Give to us help from straits: and vain the salvation of man.

Ye shall not trust in nobles: in the son of man, to him no salvation. His spirit shall go forth, he shall turn back to his earth; in that day his thoughts perished.

Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin: Going to come down to Egypt, and my mouth they asked not; to be strengthened by the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt And the strength of Pharaoh was to you for shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt for reproach.read more.
For his chiefs were in Zoan, and his messengers will reach to Hanes. All acted wickedly for a people who will not profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for a reproach.

Wo to those going down to Egypt for help; and they will look upon horses, and trust upon chariots, because they are many; and upon horsemen because they were strong greatly; and they looked not upon the Holy One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah. And he also being wise and he will bring evil, and he removed not his words: and he rose up against the house of those doing evil, and against the help of those working vanity. And the Egyptians, men and not God; and their horses, flesh and not spirit And Jehovah will stretch forth his hand, and he helping became weak, and he being helped, fell, and together shall they all be finished.

Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.

And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.

And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.

I hated those watching vanities of falsehood, and I trusted to Jehovah.

Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.

They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.

And when they shall say to you, Seek ye to necromancers and to wizards peeping and panting: shall not a people seek their God among the living for the dead? To the law and to the testimony if they will not speak according to this word, because no morning is in them. And passing through it, harshly oppressed and hungry; and it was when he shall be hungry, and they brake forth and cursed against their king and their God, and looked upwards.read more.
And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.

They saw vanity and a divination of falsehood, saying, says Jehovah: and Jehovah sent them not: and they waited to raise up the word. Saw ye not a vision of falsehood, and ye said, a divination of a lie, and saying, says Jehovah; and I spake not For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because ye spake falsehood and saw a lie, for this, behold me against you, said the Lord Jehovah.read more.
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets seeing falsehood, and divining a lie: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, and they shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel, and to the land of Israel they shall not come in; and ye knew that I am the Lord Jehovah.

For the family gods spake vanity, and the diviners saw falsehood, and they will speak dreams of falsehood they will comfort in vain: for this, they removed as a flock, they were afflicted for there was no shepherd.

And it will be as the noon passed by, and they will prophesy even to the going up of the gift, and no voice, and none answered, and no attention.

And it was when it was seen that Moab was weary upon the height, and Isaiah 16:coming to his holy place to pray and he shall not be able.

They are of turned work, as the palm tree, and they shall not speak; being lifted up they shall be lifted up, for they shall not mount up. Ye shall not be afraid of them, for they will not do evil, and also doing good is not with them.

For before these days Theudas arose, saying himself to be somebody: which a number of men followed, about four hundred, who was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were destroyed, and were for nothing. After this Judas the Galilean arose in the days of enrolling, and misled enough people after him: and he perished; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered. And now say I to you, Depart from these men, and leave them; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it shall be destroyed:

If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize, (Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle; Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?read more.
Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.

Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.

Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies?

This people draw near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart keeps off far from me. But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men.

And he having answered, said to them, That Esaias prophesied well concerning you, as it has been written, This people honour me with lips, and their heart keeps far from me. And in vain they revere me, teaching doctrines the commands of men.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able. For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Behold, you trusting to yourselves upon words of falsehood not to receive profit.

Thy prophets saw for thee vanity and a foolish thing, and they uncovered not upon thine iniquity to turn back thy captivity; and they will see for thee burdens of falsehood and seductions.

Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

And if any one build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stalks; The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove. If the work of any shall remain which he built upon, he shall receive a reward.read more.
If the work of any one shall be burned, he shall be caused damage: and he shall be saved; and so as by fire.

For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand. And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.

Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way. And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it; And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended.read more.
And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror: For he observed himself, and went away, and straightway forgot of what kind he was.

And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?

This evil people, refusing to hear my words, going in the stubbornness of their heart, and they will go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them, and it shall be as this girdle which shall not profit for anything.

Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?

The unjust one shall see and be angry; shall gnash his teeth and he melted away: the desire of the unjust shall perish.

Thou didst make light of all going astray from thy laws, for their deceit is falsehood.

The hope of the just is gladness: and the expectation of the unjust shall perish.

In the death of an unjust man expectation shall perish: and the hope of the vain shall perish.

Thus said Jehovah of armies: The broad walls of Babel being demolished, shall be demolished, and her high gates shall be burnt in fire; the peoples shall labor in vain, the nations for the fire, and they shall be weary.

And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute.

Surely in vain I cleansed my heart, and I will wash my hands in cleanness.

For he said, It will not profit a man in delighting himself with God.

And I said, I labored in vain, for emptiness; and I finish my strength vainly; surely my judgment is with Jehovah and my work with my God.

Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers

If therefore any cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel for honour, consecrated, and useful for the master, prepared for every good work.