Thematic Bible: Vanity of

that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment? Though his honor mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds, he shall perish forever like his dung; they who see him shall say, Where is he? read more.
He flies away like a dream, and shall not be found, and shall be chased away like a vision of the night. An eye glimpsed him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not see him again.

They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain. Verse Concepts

Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. But man, though high in honor, does not remain; he is like the animals that perish. This way of theirs is their foolishness; yet their followers delight in their sayings. Selah. read more.
Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of the grave; for He will take me. Selah. Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases; for when he dies he shall take nothing away; his glory shall not go down after him. For in his life he blessed his soul; yea, they praise you when you do well to yourself. He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. Man in honor, but without understanding, is like the animals; they shall perish.

And it shall be, instead of sweet smell, there shall be an odor of decay; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a wrapping of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty. Verse Concepts

And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty; for it was perfect in My beauty, which I had put on you, says the Lord Jehovah. Verse Concepts

You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah. Verse Concepts

Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home. Verse Concepts

Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who turns aside discretion. Verse Concepts

Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Jehovah, she shall be praised. Verse Concepts

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine! Verse Concepts

Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids. Verse Concepts

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have spoiled your wisdom because of your brightness. I will cast you to the ground; I will put you before kings, that they may behold you. Verse Concepts

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them. Verse Concepts

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business. Verse Concepts

For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice by the multitude of words. Verse Concepts

For in the multitude of dreams, both words and vanities abound; but fear God. Verse Concepts

A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of idols, and they act madly with idols. Verse Concepts

But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you; and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways. Verse Concepts

Then being offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and man's imagination. Verse Concepts

They are vanity, the work of delusion; in the time of their judgment they shall perish. Verse Concepts

What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols? Verse Concepts

They are like a rounded post, and they cannot speak. They must surely be lifted, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil nor good, for it is not in them. Verse Concepts

Every man is brutish in knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by idols. For his molded image is a lie, and no breath is in them. Verse Concepts

What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything? Verse Concepts