'Vanity' in the Bible
Ye sons of men, till when is my glory to be put to shame? How long will ye love vanity, will ye seek after a lie? Selah.
He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully:
Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.
And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; quicken me in thy way.
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.