Ecclesiastes 6:9
"Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit."
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- Ecclesiastes 1:14
"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Job 31:7
"If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 3:12
"I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 11:9
"Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is 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."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 4:4
"Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 5:18
"Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:22
"For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 2:20
"For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot."
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