Vanity

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no…

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.