Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."
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- Psalms 144:4
"Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away."
Read in chapter → - Romans 8:20
"For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 5:10
"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 39:5
"Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:26
"For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:17
"Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:19
"And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:23
"For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:11
"Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."
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