W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful.

A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man; neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength.

What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days?

Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

Kings' daughters go in thy goodly array, and upon thy righthand standeth the queen in a vesture of the most fine gold.

O be thou our help in trouble, for vain is the help of man.

My lips would fain sing praises unto thee; and so would my soul whom thou hast delivered.

and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine,

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are but vain.

O be thou our help in trouble; for vain is the help of man.

{A song of the stairs} Except the LORD build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table.