Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor in it; and let them not give regard to vain words.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, which you go over Jordan to possess.

And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he has repaid me evil for good.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

You say, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

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?

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?

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?

Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I have hated them that regard vain idols: but I trust in the LORD.

A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.

[A song of ascents. Of Solomon.] Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes, but in vain.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.

Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her, Rahab who sits still.

I say, you speak (but they are but vain words), I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

For thus says the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the descendants of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain: yet surely my due justice is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

And when you are plundered, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.

The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the smelter refines in vain: for the wicked are not removed.

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.

For, lo, I will raise up and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a skilled warrior; none shall return in vain.

Thus says the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the nations, because of the fire, and they shall be weary.

Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not uncovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have given you false oracles and causes of banishment.

As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, whenever you say, The LORD says it; although I have not spoken?

They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor to feed the fire, and the people shall weary themselves in vain?

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?