Bible Verses About Vanity

Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

¶ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

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.

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

¶ SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.