'Vanity' in the Bible
Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.
And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.
Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.
And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.
Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity are Thine enemies.
Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.
Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,