33 Bible Verses about Useless Endeavour

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

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

For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts, even one thing happens to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all is vanity.

but if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also is vexation of spirit.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun.

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is sad to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

There is no end of all the people, of all who have been before them; they also who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore consider and behold goodness; this also is vanity.

Then I said in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

And who knows whether he shall be wise or a fool? Yet he shall have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity.

When there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with success; yet to a man who has not labored in it, he shall leave it for his share. This also is vanity and a great evil.

For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.

a man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.

And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came and went from the holy place. And they were forgotten in the city, these things that they had done. This is also vanity.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth: There are just ones to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked ones to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but because of Him who subjected it on hope

And they rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified against them. And they went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations around them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them not to do like them.

He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he who follows vanities lacks heart.

Therefore He ended their days in vanity and their years in trouble.

so I am made to possess months of vanity, and weary nights are appointed to me.

Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,

And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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