Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

Psalm 39:5

Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

Isaiah 40:15

Truly the nations are like a drop in a bucket! They are regarded as dust on the scales! He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

Before him all the nations are as nothing! He regards them as worthless and less than nothing.

Psalm 39:11

With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.

1 Samuel 18:5

So David did everything Saul sent him to do successfully. Saul made him a commander in his army. This pleased the people and Saul's servants.

1 Samuel 18:7

The women who celebrated sang: Saul has defeated thousands but David tens of thousands!

1 Samuel 18:21-26

He said to himself: I will give Michal to David. I will use her to trap him. The Philistines will kill him. So for the second time Saul said to David: You will be my son-in-law.

1 Samuel 23:12

Will the citizens of Keilah hand my men and me over to Saul? David asked. Jehovah answered: They will hand you over.

1 Samuel 23:19-20

Some people from the town of Ziph went to Saul at Gibeah. They said: Your Majesty, David has a hideout not far from us! It is near Horesh. It is somewhere on Mount Hachilah south of Jeshimon.

1 Samuel 26:21-25

My servant David, Saul said, I have sinned. Come back. I will not harm you again. You valued my life today. I have acted like a fool. I made a terrible mistake.

2 Samuel 15:6

Absalom did this with every Israelite who came to the king for judgment. That way he won their loyalty.

2 Samuel 15:31

Someone told David: Ahithophel is helping Absalom conspire against you! David said: Please Jehovah keep Ahithophel's plans from working!

Psalm 55:13-14

But it is you, my equal, my close friend, and a well-known companion!

Psalm 116:11

I also said when I was panic-stricken: All men are liars.

Psalm 118:9

It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on human leaders.

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Matthew 21:9

Those going ahead of him and following him shouted praise: Glory to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of Jehovah! Glory in the highest! (Psalms 118:26)

John 19:15

They cried out: Away with him, away with him, impale him! Pilate asked: Should I impale your King? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

Romans 3:4

Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Lighter

Bible References

Surely

Psalm 39:5
Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.
1 Samuel 18:5
So David did everything Saul sent him to do successfully. Saul made him a commander in his army. This pleased the people and Saul's servants.
1 Samuel 23:12
Will the citizens of Keilah hand my men and me over to Saul? David asked. Jehovah answered: They will hand you over.
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this with every Israelite who came to the king for judgment. That way he won their loyalty.
Matthew 21:9
Those going ahead of him and following him shouted praise: Glory to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of Jehovah! Glory in the highest! (Psalms 118:26)
John 19:15
They cried out: Away with him, away with him, impale him! Pilate asked: Should I impale your King? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

Of high

Psalm 55:13
But it is you, my equal, my close friend, and a well-known companion!
Psalm 118:9
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on human leaders.
1 Samuel 18:21
He said to himself: I will give Michal to David. I will use her to trap him. The Philistines will kill him. So for the second time Saul said to David: You will be my son-in-law.
1 Samuel 26:21
My servant David, Saul said, I have sinned. Come back. I will not harm you again. You valued my life today. I have acted like a fool. I made a terrible mistake.
2 Samuel 15:31
Someone told David: Ahithophel is helping Absalom conspire against you! David said: Please Jehovah keep Ahithophel's plans from working!
Romans 3:4
Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged.

Laid

Daniel 5:27
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Lighter

Isaiah 40:15
Truly the nations are like a drop in a bucket! They are regarded as dust on the scales! He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

General references

Psalm 49:2
Listen you common people and important ones, rich people and poor ones.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.