36 Bible Verses about Vanity
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I also realized that all [of the] toil and all [of] the skillful work that is done--it [is] envy between one man and {another}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
I said {to myself}, "Come! I will test pleasure {to see whether it is worthwhile}." But look, "This also [is] vanity!"
So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"
I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind.
Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!" Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone [do] who will come after the king that has not already been done? I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness.read more.
{The wise man can see where he is walking}, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate. So I said {to myself}, "{If I also suffer the same fate as the fool}, {what advantage is my great wisdom}?" So I said {to myself}, "This also [is] vanity!" Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool? So I hated life because the work done under the sun [is] grievous to me. For everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me. And who knows [whether] he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all [the fruit of] my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also [is] vanity! So {I began to despair} of all the toil with which I toiled under the sun. For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also [is] vanity and a great calamity. For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun? All his days [are] painful, his labor [brings] grief, and his heart cannot rest at night. This also [is] vanity! There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God! For who can eat [and drink], and who can enjoy [life] apart from him? For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
For the fate of {humans} and the fate of the beast is {the same}. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting.
I also realized that all [of the] toil and all [of] the skillful work that is done--it [is] envy between one man and {another}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind! {The fool refuses to work with his hands, so he has nothing to eat except his own skin}! Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.read more.
I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun. Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!
There is no end to all the people, to all who were before him. Yet the later generation will not rejoice in him, for this also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
Whoever loves money is not satisfied [with] money, and whoever loves wealth [is] not [satisfied with] profit. This also [is] vanity!
God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it--instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This [is] vanity--indeed, it [is] a grievous ill! Even if a man fathers a hundred [children] and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with {his prosperity} and {he does not receive a proper burial}, I deem the stillborn better than him. For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind! Whatever is--it was already determined, {what will be--it has already been decided}. As for man, he cannot argue against what is more powerful than him. {Increasing words only multiplies futility}, how does that profit anyone?
Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so also the laughter of fools. This also [is] vanity!
Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being [honorably] buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also [is] vanity!
There [is] a vanity that happens on earth: sometimes the righteous suffer what the wicked deserve, and sometimes the wicked receive what the righteous deserve. I said, "This also [is] vanity!"
For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them! Let him remember that the days of the darkness will be many-- all that is coming [is] vanity! Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things. Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor [are] vanity.
Look! All of them [are] deception; their works [are] nothing; their images [are] wind and emptiness.
All those who form an idol [are] nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed.
For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope
They annoyed me with [what is] not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with [those] not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.
because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and which they caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.
Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?
{At the same time} they are stupid and foolish, [in the] instruction of idols, it [is] wood.
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in [the] day of distress, to you [the] nations will come from the ends of [the] earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.
and saying, "Men, why are you doing these [things]? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news [that] you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things [that are] in them--
From Thematic Bible
Idolatry » Objects of, described as » Vanity
But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, [the] ancient ways, to go [into] {bypaths}, not [one that] is built up.
Man » Compared to » Vanity
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Vanity » Foolish questions, &c are
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted [to you]. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of [what is] falsely called knowledge,
Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.
Vanity » Idolatry is
{At the same time} they are stupid and foolish, [in the] instruction of idols, it [is] wood.
But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, [the] ancient ways, to go [into] {bypaths}, not [one that] is built up.
They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he {made} with their ancestors, and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and [went] after all the nations which [were] all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they [did].
All those who form an idol [are] nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed. Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?
Vanity » The reward for following vanity
Now [this] happened because the {Israelites} had sinned against Yahweh their God when he brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and they feared other gods. They walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites}, which the kings of Israel had introduced. The {Israelites} secretly did things which [were] not right, against Yahweh their God; they built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower up to the fortified city. read more.
They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree. They burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations which Yahweh deported before them, and they did evil things to provoke Yahweh. They served idols which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing!" Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of his every prophet, [with] every seer saying, "Turn from all of your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, according to all the law which I commanded your ancestors, which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets." But they did not listen and they stiffened their necks, like the necks of their ancestors who did not believe in Yahweh their God. They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he {made} with their ancestors, and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and [went] after all the nations which [were] all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they [did]. They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal. They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him. So Yahweh was very angry with Israel and he removed them from his presence; none remained except the tribe of Judah alone. Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced, so Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel and punished them, and he gave them into the hand of the plunderers until he banished them from his presence. For he had torn Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, but Jeroboam detached Israel from following Yahweh, and he made them sin a great sin. The {Israelites} walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he committed, and they did not depart from it, until Yahweh removed Israel from his presence as he had foretold by the hand of all his servants, the prophets. And so he deported Israel from upon his land to Assyria until this day.
Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.
"Therefore thus says Yahweh, 'Please ask among the nations, "Who has heard {the like of this}?" The virgin of Israel has done something very horrible. Does the snow of Lebanon leave from [the] crags of Sirion? Or are [the] cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up? But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, [the] ancient ways, to go [into] {bypaths}, not [one that] is built up. read more.
To make their land a horror, [an object of] whistling for eternity. All [who] pass by it will be appalled, and he will shake his head. Like the wind from the east I will scatter them {before} [the] enemy. I will show them [my] back and not [my] face in the day of their disaster.'"
Vanity » Foolish questions are
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted [to you]. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of [what is] falsely called knowledge,
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.
Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.
from which some have deviated, [and] have turned away into fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the law, [although they] do not understand either [the things] which they are saying or [the things] concerning which they are speaking confidently.
Vanity » Heaping up riches is
For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!
Vanity » The wicked » Speak
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
And when one comes to see [me], he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks.
Vanity » The wicked » Imagine
the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain?
For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?
Vanity » Who became vain
This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind, being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of people, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made [it] clear to them. For from the creation of the world, his invisible [attributes], both his eternal power and deity, are discerned clearly, being understood in the things created, so that they are without excuse. read more.
For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God with the likeness of an image of mortal human beings and birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.
Vanity » The help of man is
Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.
Vanity » The wicked » Reap
They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, they do not profit. And they will be ashamed of your produce, because of {the burning anger} of Yahweh."
Vanity » Saints » Pray to be kept from
Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.
Keep falsehood and a {lying word} far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me [with] food [only for] my need.
Vanity » Mere external religion is
For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.
Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.
Vanity » The days of man are
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.
Vanity » The wicked » Walk in
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,
Vanity » Vain men
"Can you find [out] the essence of God, or can you find [out] {the ultimate limits} of Shaddai? {It is higher than the heaven}; what can you do? [It is] deeper than Sheol; what can you know? Its measure [is] longer than [the] earth and broader than [the] sea. read more.
"If he passes through and imprisons someone {and summons the assembly}, then who can hinder him? For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}. But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.
But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works [when he] offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was working together with his works, and by the works the faith was perfected.
Vanity » The wicked » Judicially given up to
When {you cry}, let your collection deliver you, and [the] wind will carry all of them away; a breath will take [them] away. But he who takes refuge in me shall take possession [of] [the] land, and he shall inherit my {holy mountain}."
Vanity » Evil people » Imagine
the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain?
For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?
Vanity » The worship of the wicked is
"But [when you] pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard.
You must not {continue} to bring offerings of futility, incense--it [is] an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, [the] calling of a convocation-- I cannot endure iniquity with [solemn] assembly.
Vanity » The wicked » Count God's service as
Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'
You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
Vanity » Emptiness of the worldly life
Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
Vanity » What is not vain
{And when Moses finished speaking} all these words to all Israel, then he said to them, "{Take to heart all the words} that I [am] admonishing [against] you {today} [concerning] which you should instruct them [with respect to] your children {so that they will observe diligently} all the words of this law, for it [is] not a trifling matter among you, but it [is] your life, and through this word {you will live long in the land} that you [are about] to cross the Jordan [to get] there to take possession of it."
Vanity » Worldly wisdom
and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."
For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also [is] vanity and a great calamity.
So I said {to myself}, "{If I also suffer the same fate as the fool}, {what advantage is my great wisdom}?" So I said {to myself}, "This also [is] vanity!"
Vanity » Evil people » Regard God's service as
Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'
You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
Vanity » Evil people » Speak
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
And when one comes to see [me], he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks.
Vanity » Evil people » Judicially given up to
When {you cry}, let your collection deliver you, and [the] wind will carry all of them away; a breath will take [them] away. But he who takes refuge in me shall take possession [of] [the] land, and he shall inherit my {holy mountain}."
Vanity » Evil people » Reap
They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, they do not profit. And they will be ashamed of your produce, because of {the burning anger} of Yahweh."
Vanity » The beauty of man is
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
Charm [is] deceit and beauty [is] vain; [but] a woman who fears Yahweh shall be praised.
Vanity » Pray to be kept from
Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.
Keep falsehood and a {lying word} far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me [with] food [only for] my need.
Vanity » Almsgiving without charity is
And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits [me] nothing.
Vanity » Childhood and youth are
Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor [are] vanity.
Vanity » Evil people » Live in
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,
Vanity » Worldly enjoyment is
I also {explored} {the effects of indulging my flesh} with wine. My mind guiding me with wisdom, {I investigated} folly so that I might discover what [is] good under heaven for {humans} to do {during the days of their lives}.
I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil. Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"
Vanity » Worldly pleasure is
I said {to myself}, "Come! I will test pleasure {to see whether it is worthwhile}." But look, "This also [is] vanity!"
Vanity » All earthly things are
"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"
Vanity » Unblessed riches are
God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it--instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This [is] vanity--indeed, it [is] a grievous ill!
Vanity » The wicked » Inherit
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in [the] day of distress, to you [the] nations will come from the ends of [the] earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
Vanity » What was made subject to vanity
For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us. For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope read more.
that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Vanity » Worldy anxiety
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.
Vanity » Wealth gotten by vanity
Wealth [gained] from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little} will increase it.
Vanity » Following those given to, leads to poverty
He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty [of] poverty.
Vanity » Wealth gotten by, diminishes
Wealth [gained] from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little} will increase it.
Vanity » Fools follow those given to
He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks {sense}.
Vanity » False teaching is but
Look, I [am] against those who prophesy dreams of lies," {declares} Yahweh, "and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all," {declares} Yahweh.
Vanity » Saints » Hate the thoughts of
I hate {the double-minded}, but I love your law.
Vanity » Who shall reap vanity
Vanity » Treasures of wickedness are
Vanity » The wicked » Allure others by words of
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
Vanity » The wicked » Walk after
Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?
Vanity » Worldly labor is
Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"
I also realized that all [of the] toil and all [of] the skillful work that is done--it [is] envy between one man and {another}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
Vanity » The conduct of the unGodly is
[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,
Vanity » A consequence of the fall
For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope
Vanity » Man is like to
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Vanity » Every man is
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
Vanity » The wicked » Devise
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
Vanity » Saints » Avoid those given to
I do not sit with deceitful people, nor will I go about with hypocrites.
Vanity » Saints » Avoid
He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.
Vanity » Saints hate the thoughts of
I hate {the double-minded}, but I love your law.
Vanity » Man at his best estate is
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
Vanity » The religion of hypocrites is
If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion [is] worthless.
Vanity » Faith without works is
What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?
Vanity » Evil people » Inherit
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in [the] day of distress, to you [the] nations will come from the ends of [the] earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
Vanity » Evil people » Though full of, affect to be wise
But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.
Vanity » Evil people » Especially characterized by
For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.
Vanity » The wicked » Though full of, affect to be wise
But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.
Vanity » The wicked » Especially characterized by
For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.
Vanity » The wicked » Love
O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah
Vanity » God not hearing or regarding vanity
Vanity » Man's own righteousness is
I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.
Vanity » Worldly possessions
{I accomplished great things}. I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards. I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted all [sorts of] fruit trees in them. I made for myself pools of water from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees. read more.
I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children [born in my] house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who [was] before me in Jerusalem. I also gathered to myself silver and gold--the royal and provincial treasuries. I acquired for myself male and female singers, as well as the delight of {men}, {voluptuous concubines}. Thus, {I accomplished far more} than anyone who [was] before me in Jerusalem--indeed, my wisdom stood by me. I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil. Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"
Vanity » They who trust in, rewarded with
Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.
Vanity » Evil people » Allure others through the words of
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
Vanity » Almsgiving without love is
And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits [me] nothing.
Vanity » The thoughts of man are
Vanity » Man is similar to
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Vanity » Every man has
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
Vanity » Evil people » Live by
Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?
Vanity » Evil people » Devise
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
Vanity » Riches gotten by falsehood are
Vanity » Every state of man is
Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.
Vanity » Love of riches is
Whoever loves money is not satisfied [with] money, and whoever loves wealth [is] not [satisfied with] profit. This also [is] vanity!
Vanity » Lying words are
Vanity » All should know and acknowledge
You [yourselves] were shown [this wonder] in order [for you] to acknowledge that Yahweh [is] the God; there is no other [God] {besides him}.
Vanity » Avoid those given to
I do not sit with deceitful people, nor will I go about with hypocrites.
Vanity » Avoid
He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.
Vanity » Evil people » Love
O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah
Vanity » Worldly pleasure
I said {to myself}, "Come! I will test pleasure {to see whether it is worthwhile}." But look, "This also [is] vanity!"
Topics on Vanity
The Vanity Of Human Knowledge
Isaiah 44:25who frustrates [the] signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives [the] wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,