'Chasing' in the Bible
I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind.
So {I dedicated myself} to learn about wisdom and [to] learn about delusion and folly. However, I discovered that this also [is] 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!"
So I hated life because the work done under the sun [is] grievous to me. For everything [is] vanity and chasing wind!
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!
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!
Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.
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!
{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
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Bible Theasaurus
- Chase (47 instances)
- Chasing (29 instances)
- Dog (24 instances)
- Furrow (3 instances)
- Tail (18 instances)
- Track (11 instances)
- Trail (4 instances)
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