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Vanity
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Deuteronomy 4:35It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.2 Kings 17:15They 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 Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.Job 11:11For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.Job 11:12An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’Psalm 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?Psalm 4:2You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.Psalm 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.Psalm 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.Psalm 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.Psalm 26:4I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.Psalm 31:6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.Psalm 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.Psalm 39:5Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.Psalm 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.Psalm 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.Psalm 41:6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.Psalm 60:11Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.Psalm 62:9Surely 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.Psalm 78:33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.Psalm 94:11Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.Psalm 119:37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.Psalm 119:113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.Psalm 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.Psalm 144:4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.Proverbs 12:11He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.Proverbs 13:11Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.Proverbs 21:6Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.Proverbs 22:8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.Proverbs 28:19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.Ecclesiastes 1:2“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.Ecclesiastes 2:4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.Ecclesiastes 2:5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.Ecclesiastes 2:7I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;Ecclesiastes 2:8I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—musical instruments, and that of all sorts.Ecclesiastes 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:15Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 2:26For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.Ecclesiastes 4:4Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecclesiastes 4:8There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.Ecclesiastes 5:10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 6:2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.Isaiah 1:13Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.Isaiah 44:9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.Isaiah 44:10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?Isaiah 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.Isaiah 57:13When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.”Jeremiah 2:5Thus says Yahweh, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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