Haller's Concordance: VANITY

• We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy commandments, and ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded thy servant Moses. 2 Esd. 1:7
• For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity, doth he not consider it? Job 11:11
• If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: Job 31:5
• O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying? Ps. 4:2
• I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. Ps. 26:4
• Behold thou hast made my days measurable, and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. Ps. 39:5
• Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity. Ps. 52:7
• But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive. Ps. 62:9
• And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste. Ps. 78:33
• Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way. Ps. 119:37
• Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. Ps. 144:4
• Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. Ps. 144:8
• Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity: Ps. 144:11
• Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life: Pr. 30:8
• Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. Eccl. 1:2
• I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit. Eccl. 1:14
• ¤ I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity. Eccl. 2:1
• 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. Eccl. 2:11
• 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. Eccl. 2:15
• And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit. Eccl. 2:17
• 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. Eccl. 2:21
• All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? Eccl. 2:23
• 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. Eccl. 2:26
• Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity. Eccl. 3:19
• 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. Eccl. 4:4
• Considering I found also another vanity under the sun: Eccl. 4:7
• There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation. Eccl. 4:8
• The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit. Eccl. 4:16
• A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity. Eccl. 5:10
• A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery. Eccl. 6:2
• Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit. Eccl. 6:9
• There are many words that have much vanity in disputing. Eccl. 6:11
• For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity. Eccl. 7:6
• These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness. Eccl. 7:15
• I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity. Eccl. 8:10
• There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain. Eccl. 8:14
• Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun. Eccl. 9:9
• If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity. Eccl. 11:8
• Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity. Eccl. 12:8
• For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind. Wis. 4:12
• For by the vanity of men they came into the world: and therefore they shall be found to come shortly to an end. Wis. 14:14
• And the suspicion of them hath deceived many, and hath detained their minds in vanity. Sir. 3:26
• For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil. Sir. 17:29
• A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby. Sir. 23:8
• Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity: Sir. 34:5
• Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. Isa. 5:18
• The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in. Isa. 24:10
• All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity. Isa. 40:17
• He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity. Isa. 40:23
• Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity. Isa. 41:29
• Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Jer. 2:5
• They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood. Jer. 10:8
• O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them. Jer. 16:19
• For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd. Zach. 10:2
• For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope. Rom. 8:20
• This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind: Eph. 4:17
• For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: 2 Pet. 2:18