Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

“Let the stars of its early dawn be dark;
Let the morning wait in vain for the light,
Let it not see the eyelids of morning (the day’s dawning),

for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

“The caravans of Tema looked [for water],
The caravans of Sheba waited for them [in vain].

Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain?

whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.

For like as a bond servant desireth the shadow, and as a hireling would fain have an end of his work:

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they will not escape [the justice of God];
And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”

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

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

Mine own wife may not abide my breath, I was fain to speak fair for the children of mine own body.

"His children shall be fain to agree with the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

Then shall he be fain to be buried among the stones by the brookside. All men must follow him, and there are innumerable gone before him.

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

For thou wilt take a pledge of thy brethren, in vain, and the garments of the naked thou wilt strip of

Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent-beds, fine gold:

The poor are fain to labour in their oil mills, yea and to tread in their wine presses, and yet to suffer thirst.

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

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

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

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

Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

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

“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

“Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust],
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth their young among the stony rocks? Or layest thou wait when the hinds use to fawn?

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

He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen.

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