And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

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?

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

Then did I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

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

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.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

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.

Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

[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.

Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table.

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.

For the gain from it is better than the gain from silver, and the profit thereof than fine gold.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with colored spreads, with fine linen of Egypt.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

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

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

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.

She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

She makes fine linen, and sells it; and delivers sashes unto the merchants.

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?

His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are wavy, and black as a raven.

His legs are pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the blossoms of the valley, and to see whether the vine had budded, and the pomegranates were in bloom.

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches: may also your breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the fragrance of your breath like apples;

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine has budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened, and the pomegranates are in bloom: there will I give you my loves.

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.

The mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.

And he dug it, and gathered out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

I will make a man more rare than fine gold; even a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations have broken down its choicest vines, they have come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they have gone over the sea.

Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest has fallen.

Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave fine linen, shall lose hope.

And her merchandise and her hire shall be dedicated to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for fine clothing.

The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

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

Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

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?

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make peace with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as fine dust.

You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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?

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a wild vine unto me?

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.

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places blows in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

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.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.

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

I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

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.

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

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.

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer: your plants have gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the plunderer has fallen upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage.

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.

How has the gold become dim! how has the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

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?

Son of man, How is the wood of the vine tree better than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

I clothed you also with embroidered work, and gave you sandals of badgers' skin, and I clothed you with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.

Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were exceedingly beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom.

My food also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet aroma: and thus it was, says the Lord GOD.

And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the bed of its planting.

It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a splendid vine.