Strong's G3153 ματαιότης (mataiotes)

Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye be slow of heart? Wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

I have not sat with the council of vanity, And will in nowise enter in with transgressors.

Thou hast hated them that idly persist in vanities: But I have hoped in the Lord.

While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: And they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, And devised deceits all the day.

Behold, thou hast made my days old; And my existence is as nothing before thee: Nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

Blessed is the man whose hope is the name of the Lord, And who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.

Behold the man who made not God his help; But trusted in the abundance of his wealth, And strengthened himself in his vanity.

But the sons of men are vain; The sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; They are all alike formed out of vanity.

And their days were consumed in vanity, And their years with anxiety.

Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: Quicken thou me in thy way.

For thou wilt say concerning their thought, That they shall take thy cities in vain.

Man is like to vanity: His days pass as a shadow.

Whose mouth has spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, Whose mouth has spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; And shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. But a man shall fully prove the folly of his works.

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

I beheld all the works That were wrought under the sun; And, behold, all were vanity and waywardness of spirit.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, and behold thou good: And, behold, this is also vanity.

And I looked on all my works Which my hands had wrought, And on my labor which I labored to perform: And, behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit, And there is no advantage under the sun.

And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool is, So shall it be to me, even to me; And to what purpose have I gained wisdom? I said moreover in my heart, This is also vanity, Because the fool speaks of his abundance.

So I hated life; Because the work that was wrought under the sun Was evil before me: For all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? And whether he will have power over all my labor In which I labored, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? This is also vanity.

For there is such a man that his labor Is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude; Yet this man shall give his portion To one who has not labored therein. This is also vanity and great evil.

For all his days Are days of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his; In the night also his heart rests not. This is also vanity.

For God has given to the man Who is good in his sight, Wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: But he has given to the sinner trouble, To add and to heap up, That he may give to him that is good before God; For this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

Also to them is the event of the sons of man, And the event of the brute; One event befalls them: As is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; And there is one breath to all: And what has the man more than the brute? Nothing; for all is vanity.

And I saw all labor, And all the diligent work, That this is a man’s envy from his neighbor. This is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

So I returned, and saw vanity under the sun.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; Yea, he has neither son nor brother: Yet there is no end to all his labor; Neither is his eye satisfied with wealth; And for whom do I labor, And deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, And an evil trouble.

There is no end to all the people, To all who were before them: And the last shall not rejoice in him: For this also is vanity and waywardness of spirit.

For there is evil in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: But fear thou God.

He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: And who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? This is also vanity.

A man to whom God shall give Wealth, and substance, and honor, And he wants nothing for his soul Of all things that he shall desire, Yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, For a stranger shall devour it: This is vanity, and an evil infirmity.

For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, And his name shall be covered in darkness.

The sight of the eyes is better than that which wanders in soul: This is also vanity, and waywardness of spirit.

For there are many things which increase vanity.

What advantage has a man? For who knows what is good for a man in his life, During the number of the life of the days of his vanity? And he has spent them as a shadow; For who shall tell a man What shall be after him under the sun?

As the sound of thorns under a caldron, So is the laughter of fools: This is also vanity.

I have seen all things in the days of my vanity: There is a just man perishing in his justice, And there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.

And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, And that out of the holy place: And they departed, and were praised in the city, Because they had done thus: This also is vanity.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; That there are righteous persons to whom it happens According to the doing of the ungodly; And there are ungodly men, to whom it happens According to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.

Vanity is in all: There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; To the good, and to the bad; Both to the pure, and to the impure; Both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: As is the good, so is the sinner: As is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

And see life with the wife whom thou lovest All the days of the life of thy vanity, Which are given thee under the sun: For that is thy portion in thy life, And in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

For even if a man should live many years, And rejoice in them all; Yet let him remember the days of darkness; For they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, And put away evil from thy flesh: For youth and folly are vanity.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; All is vanity.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.