33 Bible Verses about Useless Endeavour

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.

For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity.

If man shall live many years, in them all shall he rejoice; and he shall remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All coming is vanity.

I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit

And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit

For to a man good before his face, he gave wisdom and knowledge and gladness: and to him sinning, he gave labor, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good one before the face of God. Also this is vanity and the striving of the spirit.

And I saw all the labor and all the success of the work, for this the jealousy of a man from his neighbor. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit.

No end to all the people, to all which were before them: also the last ones shall not rejoice in him. For also this is vanity and striving of the spirit

Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.

And I said in my heart, As the event of the foolish one, also I, it will meet me; and wherefore then was I more wise? And I spake in my heart, This is also vanity.

And who shall know whether he shall be wise or foolish? And he shall have dominion over all my labor which I labored, and was wise under the sun. Also this is vanity.

For there is man his labor in wisdom, and in knowledge and in success; and to man not laboring in it he shall give his portion. Also this is vanity and much evil.

For all his days pains, and vexation, his labor; also in the night his heart rested not Also this it is vanity.

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.

A man which God will give to him wealth and riches and honor, and wanting not to his soul from all which he shall desire, and God will not permit him to eat from it, for a man, a stranger shall eat it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.

And so then I saw the unjust buried, and they came and they will go from the holy place, and they will be forgotten in the city where they did thus: also this is vanity.

There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.

And I turned back, and I shall see vanity under the sun.

For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope,

And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.

He working his earth shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing vain things wanted heart.

And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.

He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation.

Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers

And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.