Bible Verses About Vanity

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.