If I am wicked, why then labor I in vain?

For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?

How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;

Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;

Behold, the hope of subduing him is in vain: shall one not be cast down even at the sight of him?