Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Bible References
General references
Ecclesiastes 2:11
At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; and they all have one breath; so that a man has no more breath than a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Again, I considered all travail and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Certainly the many words multiply vanity, what more does man have?
Ecclesiastes 11:8
but if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 62:9
Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Romans 8:20
For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,