Vanity

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Romans 8:20 NT

  For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

• Psalms 39:11 OT

  When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

• Psalms 62:9 OT

  Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

• Psalms 39:5 OT

  Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

• Psalms 144:4 OT

  Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

• Psalms 94:11 OT

  Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

• Job 7:16 OT

  I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

• Ecclesiastes 6:12 OT

  For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 11:10 OT

  Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

• Proverbs 31:30 OT

  Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

• Psalms 60:11 OT

  Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

• Lamentations 4:17 OT

  Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

• Isaiah 57:12 OT

  I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

• Ecclesiastes 2:15 OT

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

• Ecclesiastes 2:21 OT

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

• 1 Corinthians 3:20 NT

  And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

• Ecclesiastes 2:1 OT

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

• Psalms 39:6 OT

  “Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

• Psalms 127:2 OT

  It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

• Ecclesiastes 2:11 OT

  Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 4:4 OT

  Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 2:3 OT

  I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

• Ecclesiastes 2:10 OT

  Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

• Ecclesiastes 2:4-11 OT

  I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were…