Bible Verses About Vanity

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.

Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.

Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.

He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.

Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.

I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,

And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,

I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:

I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:

And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.

And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.

And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.

For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.

God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.