Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
General references
Bible References
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Absolute futility,” says the Teacher.
“Absolute futility. Everything is futile.”
“Absolute futility. Everything is futile.”
Ecclesiastes 2:17
Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell man what will happen after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:8
No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.
Psalm 62:9 Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.