Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Emptiness » Emptiness or vanity of the worldly life (ps 3911; 629)
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind,
Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also:
As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.
As for the people that have been before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their joy the greater through him. This is also a vain thing and a vexation of mind. (v17) When thou comest into the house of God, keep thy foot and draw nigh, that thou mayest hear: that is better than the offerings of fools, for they know not what evil they do
Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remove evil from thy body: for childhood and youth is but vanity.