Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.

As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.

Take from me the way of lying, and grant me thy law.

All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.

Woe be unto vain persons, that draw wickedness unto them with cords of vanity; and sin, as it were with a cart rope.

No man regardeth righteousness, and no man judgeth truly. Every man hopeth in vain things, and imagineth deceit; conceiveth weariness, and bringeth forth evil.

And he said unto them, "Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast." And they bare it.

and saying, "Sirs, why do ye this? We are mortal men like unto you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is,

Feed

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this journey which I go and will give me bread to eat, and clothes to put on,

And he blessed Joseph saying, "God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day;

When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is this?" For they wist not what it was. And Moses said, "This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Our daily bread give us this day evermore.

Godliness is great riches, if a man be content with that he hath.

Convenient for me

And a continual portion was assigned him of the king, day by day as long as he lived.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded to put Jeremiah in the fore entry of the prison, and daily to be given him a cake of bread of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was eaten up. Thus Jeremiah remained in the fore entry of the prison.

And he had a continual living given him of the king of Babylon; every day a certain thing allowed him all the days of his life, until he died.

General references

Give us this day our daily bread.

When we have food and raiment, let us therewith be content.