Bible Verses About Vanity

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not , `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.

A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!

Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense--an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity--and a restraint!

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are , They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out--not profitable?

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

When thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee, And all of them carry away doth wind, Take away doth vanity, And whoso is trusting in Me inheriteth the land, And doth possess My holy mountain.

Thus said Jehovah: What--have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick--they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways--paths of old, To walk in paths--a way not raised up,

Lo, I am against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I--I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.

While we exist--consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.

Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

`And--praying--ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

for to vanity was the creation made subject--not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it --in hope,

and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.