Bible Verses About Vanity

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

¶ Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

¶ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

¶ Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

¶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

¶ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

¶ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

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

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

¶ I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

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.

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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.

¶ 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.