Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, how is man the better?

Psalm 73:6

Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

Ecclesiastes 1:6-9

The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to its circuit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17-18

And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is like grasping the wind.

I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; the same thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:1-4

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

Ecclesiastes 6:11