Bible Verses About Vanity

It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God. There is no one else besides him.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Behold, you have made my days hand breadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

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

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

I hate double-minded men, but I love your Torah.