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Keywords: ADAM,AGRICULTURE,ANTEDILUVIANS,EVE,SHEPHERD
Description: Genesis 4:2
NET Translation: Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.
DARBY Translation: And she further bore his brother AbelVANITY' (Ps.144.4)." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D36. And Abel was a shepherdD37, but Cain was a husbandmanD38.
KJV Translation: And she again bare his brother AbelK32. And Abel was a keeperK33of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Keywords: GOD,VANITY,WISDOM
Description: Deuteronomy 4:35
NET Translation: You have been taught that the Lord alone is God—there is no other besides him.
DARBY Translation: Unto thee it was shewn, that thou mightest know that Jehovah, he is God there is none other besides him.
KJV Translation: Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him.
Keywords: VANITY
Description: 2 Kings 17:15
NET Translation: They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.
DARBY Translation: And they rejected his statutesD2285, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed VANITY and became vainVANITY.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D2286, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
KJV Translation: And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed VANITY, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Description: Job 7:3
NET Translation: thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
DARBY Translation: So am I made to possess months of VANITY, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
KJV Translation: So am I made to possess months of VANITY, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Keywords: DEATH,VANITY
Description: Job 7:16
NET Translation: I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
DARBY Translation: I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breathVANITY.' see Gen. 4.2." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D2911.
KJV Translation: I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] VANITY.
Keywords: GOD,HEART,SIN,VANITY
Description: Job 11:11
NET Translation: For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?
DARBY Translation: For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;
KJV Translation: For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?
Keywords: DEPRAVITY OF MAN,IGNORANCE,PRIDE,SARCASM,VANITY,WICKED (PEOPLE),WISDOM
Description: Job 11:12
NET Translation: But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
DARBY Translation: Yet a senselessD2940 man will make bold, though man be born [like]D2941 the foal of a wild ass.
KJV Translation: For vainK3136man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt.
Keywords: CONFIDENCE,HYPOCRISY
Description: Job 15:31
NET Translation: Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.
DARBY Translation: Let him not trust in VANITY: he is deceived, for VANITY shall be his recompense;
KJV Translation: Let not him that is deceived trust in VANITY: for VANITY shall be his recompence.
Keywords: BELLY,DECEIT,MALICE
Description: Job 15:35
NET Translation: They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”
DARBY Translation: They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
KJV Translation: They conceive mischief, and bring forth VANITYK3169, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Keywords: AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,CHARACTER,INFIDELITY,PRAYER,PRAYERLESSNESS,SCOFFING,SKEPTICISM,VANITY
Description: Job 21:15
NET Translation: Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
DARBY Translation: What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
KJV Translation: What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Keywords: DECEIT,FALSEHOOD,TEMPTATION
Description: Job 31:5
NET Translation: If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit—
DARBY Translation: If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
KJV Translation: If I have walked with VANITY, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Keywords: WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Job 35:13
NET Translation: Surely it is an empty cry—God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.
DARBY Translation: Surely God will not hear VANITY, neither will the Almighty regard it.
KJV Translation: Surely God will not hear VANITY, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Description: Job 35:16
NET Translation: So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”
DARBY Translation: For Job hath opened his mouth in VANITY, and made words abundant without knowledge.
KJV Translation: Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Keywords: DAVID,PSALMS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,PROPHECY,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,VANITY
Description: Psalms 2:1
NET Translation: Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?
DARBY Translation: Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and [why] do the peoplesD3167 meditate a vain thing?
KJV Translation: Why do the heathen rageK3424, and the people imagineK3425a vain thing?
Verse Intro: Submission to God's Appointed King
Keywords: LEASING,MALICE,VANITY
Description: Psalms 4:2
NET Translation: You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive? (Selah)
DARBY Translation: Ye sons of men, till when is my glory [to be put] to shame? [How long] will ye love VANITY, will ye seek after a lie? Selah.
KJV Translation: O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love VANITY, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.
Keywords: DECEIT,FALSEHOOD,MALICE,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,SPEAKING,VANITY
Description: Psalms 10:7
NET Translation: His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.
DARBY Translation: His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
KJV Translation: His mouth is full of cursing and deceitK3461and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and VANITYK3462.
Keywords: FALSEHOOD,FLATTERY,HEART,VANITY
Description: Psalms 12:2
NET Translation: People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
DARBY Translation: They speak falsehoodVANITY.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D3252 every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heartD3253, do they speak.
KJV Translation: They speak VANITY every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heartK3474do they speak.
Keywords: DECEIT,GOD,HEART,HONESTY,VANITY
Description: Psalms 24:4
NET Translation: The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.
DARBY Translation: He that hath blamelessD3325 hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto VANITY, nor sweareth deceitfully:
KJV Translation: He that hath clean handsK3553, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto VANITY, nor sworn deceitfully.
Keywords: COMPANY,FELLOWSHIP,VANITY
Description: Psalms 26:4
NET Translation: I do not associate with deceitful men, or consort with those who are dishonest.
DARBY Translation: I have not sat with vainD3337 persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;
KJV Translation: I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Keywords: COMPANY,VANITY
Description: Psalms 31:6
NET Translation: I hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
DARBY Translation: I have hated them that observe lying vanitiesD3360; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.
KJV Translation: I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Keywords: DECEIT,FALSEHOOD
Description: Psalms 36:3
NET Translation: The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.
DARBY Translation: The words of his mouth are wickednessVANITY,' 'mischief.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D3393 and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.
KJV Translation: The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.
Keywords: VANITY
Description: Psalms 36:4
NET Translation: While he lies in bed he plans ways to sin. He is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.
DARBY Translation: He deviseth wickednessVANITY,' 'mischief.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D3394 up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.
KJV Translation: He deviseth mischiefVANITY." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">K3621upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Keywords: HANDBREADTH,MEASURE,VANITY
Description: Psalms 39:5
NET Translation: Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor. (Selah)
DARBY Translation: Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placedD3422, is altogether VANITY. Selah.
KJV Translation: Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best stateK3648[is] altogether VANITY. Selah.
Keywords: CARE,VANITY
Description: Psalms 39:6
NET Translation: Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
DARBY Translation: Verily, man walketh in a vain showD3423; verily they are disquieted in vainVANITY,' as vers. 5,11. Job. 7.16." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D3424; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
KJV Translation: Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Keywords: BEAUTY,LIFE,MOTH,VANITY,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Psalms 39:11
NET Translation: You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
DARBY Translation: When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume awayD3425 like a moth: surely, every man is VANITY. Selah.
KJV Translation: When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume awayK3651like a moth: surely every man [is] VANITY. Selah.
Keywords: THE SICK,SLANDER,VANITY
Description: Psalms 41:6
NET Translation: When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.
DARBY Translation: And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
KJV Translation: And if he come to see [me], he speaketh VANITY: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
Keywords: ANGER,MALICE
Description: Psalms 55:3
NET Translation: because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.
DARBY Translation: Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wickedD3528: for they cast iniquityVANITY;' it is inwardly devised evil. see Job 4.8; 15.35; Pa 7.14; 10.7; 66.18; 90.10." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D3529 upon me, and in anger they persecute me.
KJV Translation: Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CONFIDENCE,VANITY
Description: Psalms 60:11
NET Translation: Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.
DARBY Translation: Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
KJV Translation: Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of manK3738.
Keywords: FALSE CONFIDENCE,VANITY
Description: Psalms 62:9
NET Translation: Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
DARBY Translation: Men of low degreeD3585 are only VANITYD3586; men of high degreeD3587, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than VANITYD3588.
KJV Translation: Surely men of low degree [are] VANITY, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogetherK3746[lighter] than VANITY.
Keywords: VANITY
Description: Psalms 78:33
NET Translation: So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.
DARBY Translation: And he consumed their days in VANITY, and their years in terror.
KJV Translation: Therefore their days did he consume in VANITY, and their years in trouble.
Keywords: GOD,LIFE
Description: Psalms 89:47
NET Translation: Take note of my brief lifespan. Why do you make all people so mortal?
DARBY Translation: Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be VANITY?
KJV Translation: Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,LIFE,LONGEVITY,OLD AGE
Description: Psalms 90:10
NET Translation: The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.
DARBY Translation: The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and VANITYD3792, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
KJV Translation: The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Keywords: DEPRAVITY OF MAN,HEART,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,SIN,VANITY
Description: Psalms 94:11
NET Translation: The Lord knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are VANITYD3817.
KJV Translation: The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] VANITY.
Keywords: VANITY
Description: Psalms 119:37
NET Translation: Turn my eyes away from what is worthless. Revive me with your word.
DARBY Translation: Turn away mine eyes from beholding VANITY; quicken me in thy way.
KJV Translation: Turn awayK4007mine eyes from beholding VANITY; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.
Keywords: SIN,VANITY,WORD OF GOD
Description: Psalms 119:113
NET Translation: ס (Samek). I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.
DARBY Translation: SAMECH. The double-minded have I hated; but thy law do I love.
KJV Translation: SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Keywords: BREAD,CARE,GOD,SLEEP,VANITY,WORKS
Description: Psalms 127:2
NET Translation: It is vain for you to rise early, come home late, and work so hard for your food. Yes, he provides for those whom he loves even when they sleep.
DARBY Translation: It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrowsD4011: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.
KJV Translation: [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Keywords: DEATH,HUMILITY,LIFE,MAN,VANITY
Description: Psalms 144:4
NET Translation: People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
DARBY Translation: ManD4085 is like to VANITYD4086; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
KJV Translation: Man is like to VANITY: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
Keywords: CHILDREN,FALSEHOOD
Description: Psalms 144:8
NET Translation: who speak lies, and make false promises.
DARBY Translation: Whose mouth speaketh VANITY, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
KJV Translation: Whose mouth speaketh VANITY, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
Keywords: CHILDREN,FALSEHOOD
Description: Psalms 144:11
NET Translation: Grab me and rescue me from the power of foreigners, who speak lies, and make false promises.
DARBY Translation: Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh VANITY, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
KJV Translation: Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh VANITY, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:
Keywords: RICHES,RIGHTEOUSNESS,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 10:2
NET Translation: Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
DARBY Translation: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
KJV Translation: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Keywords: COMPANY,FELLOWSHIP,INDUSTRY,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 12:11
NET Translation: The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks sense.
DARBY Translation: He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless is void of understanding.
KJV Translation: He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.
Keywords: INDUSTRY,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 13:11
NET Translation: Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.
DARBY Translation: Wealth [gotten] by VANITY diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase [it].
KJV Translation: Wealth [gotten] by VANITY shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labourK4204shall increase.
Keywords: FALSEHOOD,RICHES,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 21:6
NET Translation: Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
DARBY Translation: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.
KJV Translation: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a VANITY tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Keywords: SIN,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 22:8
NET Translation: The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
DARBY Translation: He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquityVANITY,' 'mischief.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D4381, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.
KJV Translation: He that soweth iniquity shall reap VANITY: and the rod of his anger shall failK4286.
Keywords: COMPANY,FELLOWSHIP,INDUSTRY,POOR,POVERTY,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 28:19
NET Translation: The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.
DARBY Translation: He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough.
KJV Translation: He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.
Keywords: BLESSING,CONTENTMENT,COVETOUSNESS,FOOD,POVERTY,RICHES,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 30:8
NET Translation: Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,
DARBY Translation: Remove far from me VANITY and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
KJV Translation: Remove far from me VANITY and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for meK4373:
Keywords: BEAUTY,REVERENCE,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 31:30
NET Translation: Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting. A woman who fears the Lord—she makes herself praiseworthy.
DARBY Translation: Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman [that] feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
KJV Translation: Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Keywords: COVETOUSNESS,EXPERIENCE,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 1:2
NET Translation: “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher. “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”
DARBY Translation: VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, VANITY of vanities! all is VANITY.
KJV Translation: VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, VANITY of vanities; all [is] VANITY.
Keywords: WORKS
Description: Ecclesiastes 1:14
NET Translation: I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile—like chasing the wind!
DARBY Translation: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is VANITY and pursuit of the windD4476.
KJV Translation: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] VANITY and vexation of spirit.
Keywords: EXPERIMENT,LIFE,PHILOSOPHY,AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,EPICUREANS,HAPPINESS,INVESTIGATION,PLEASURE,VANITY,WISDOM,WORLDLINESS
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:1
NET Translation: I thought to myself, “Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.
DARBY Translation: I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoyD4477 pleasure. But behold, this also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] VANITY.
Verse Intro: Futility of Self-Indulgent Pleasure
Keywords: VANITY,WINE
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:3
NET Translation: I thought deeply about the effects of indulging myself with wine (all the while my mind was guiding me with wisdom) and the effects of behaving foolishly, so that I might discover what is profitable for people to do on earth during the few days of their lives.
DARBY Translation: I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practisingD4478 my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of menD4479 which they should do under the heavens allD4480 the days of their life.
KJV Translation: I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wineK4396, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their lifeK4397.
Keywords: AGRICULTURE,SOLOMON,VANITY,VINEYARD
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:4
NET Translation: I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
DARBY Translation: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
KJV Translation: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Verse Intro: Futility of Materialism
Keywords: INDUSTRY,JOY,SELF-INDULGENCE,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:10
NET Translation: I did not restrain myself from getting whatever I wanted; I did not deny myself anything that would bring me pleasure. So all my accomplishments gave me joy; this was my reward for all my effort.
DARBY Translation: And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.
KJV Translation: And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Keywords: AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,INDUSTRY,VANITY,WINE
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:11
NET Translation: Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: “All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless—like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth.”
DARBY Translation: Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost meD4482 to do [them]; and behold, all was VANITY and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
KJV Translation: Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] VANITY and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.
Keywords: MAN,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:15
NET Translation: So I thought to myself, “The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?” So I lamented to myself, “The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!”
DARBY Translation: And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the foolD4484 soD4485 will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to meK4402; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] VANITY.
Verse Intro: Chasing After Man's Wisdom - Like the Fool the End is Death
Keywords: INDUSTRY,LIFE,MURMURING
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:17
NET Translation: So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile—like chasing the wind.
DARBY Translation: And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is VANITY and pursuit of the wind.
KJV Translation: Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] VANITY and vexation of spirit.
Keywords: HEIR,INHERITANCE
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:19
NET Translation: Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth. This also is futile!
DARBY Translation: And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a foolD4486? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also VANITY.
Keywords: PROPERTY,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:21
NET Translation: For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over the fruit of his labor as an inheritance to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice!
DARBY Translation: For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillD4487, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is VANITY and a great evil.
KJV Translation: For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leaveK4404it [for] his portion. This also [is] VANITY and a great evil.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:23
NET Translation: For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax. This also is futile!
DARBY Translation: For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also VANITY.
Keywords: GIFTS FROM GOD,GOD,JOY,VANITY,WICKED (PEOPLE),WISDOM
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:26
NET Translation: For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth—only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile—like chasing the wind!
DARBY Translation: For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is VANITY and pursuit of the wind.
KJV Translation: For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sightK4406wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] VANITY and vexation of spirit.
Verse Intro: The Task of Amassing Wealth by the Wicked is Futile
Keywords: DEATH
Description: Ecclesiastes 3:19
NET Translation: For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.
DARBY Translation: For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breathD4496; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is VANITY.
KJV Translation: For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] VANITY.
Keywords: ENVY,JEALOUSY,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 4:4
NET Translation: Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless—like chasing the wind.
DARBY Translation: And I saw all labour, and all successD4501 of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is VANITY and pursuit of the wind.
KJV Translation: Again, I considered all travail, and every right workK4415, that for this a man is envied of his neighbourK4416. This [is] also VANITY and vexation of spirit.
Verse Intro: Problem of Envy - An Issue of Motivation
Keywords: AVARICE,MISER
Description: Ecclesiastes 4:7
NET Translation: So I again considered another futile thing on earth:
DARBY Translation: And I returned and saw VANITY under the sun.
KJV Translation: Then I returned, and I saw VANITY under the sun.
Verse Intro: Problem of Work Alone - Strength of Relationships is Lost
Keywords: AVARICE,CARE,COVETOUSNESS,MISER,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 4:8
NET Translation: A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is futile and a burdensome task!
DARBY Translation: There is one [alone] and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is VANITY and a grievous occupationD4504.
KJV Translation: There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also VANITY, yea, it [is] a sore travail.
Description: Ecclesiastes 4:16
NET Translation: There is no end to all the people nor to the past generations, yet future generations will not rejoice in him. This also is profitless and like chasing the wind.
DARBY Translation: [There is] no end of all the people, of all that stood before themD4505; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is VANITY and a striving after the wind.
KJV Translation: [There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] VANITY and vexation of spirit.
Keywords: AVARICE,COVETOUSNESS,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 5:10
NET Translation: The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile.
DARBY Translation: He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also VANITY.
Verse Intro: Futility of Covetousness
Keywords: RICHES,VANITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 6:2
NET Translation: God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor—instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.
DARBY Translation: one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a strangerD4512 eateth it: this is VANITY, and a sore evil.
KJV Translation: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] VANITY, and it [is] an evil disease.
Description: Ecclesiastes 6:4
NET Translation: Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
DARBY Translation: For it cometh in VANITY, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
KJV Translation: For he cometh in with VANITY, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Description: Ecclesiastes 6:9
NET Translation: It is better to be content with what the eyes can see than for one’s heart always to crave more. This continual longing is futile—like chasing the wind.
DARBY Translation: Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desireD4516: this also is VANITY and pursuit of the wind.
KJV Translation: Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also VANITY and vexation of spirit.
Verse Intro: Futility of Continually Craving for More
Keywords: IGNORANCE,WORLDLINESS
Description: Ecclesiastes 6:11
NET Translation: The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?
DARBY Translation: For there are many things that increase VANITY: what is man advantaged?
KJV Translation: Seeing there be many things that increase VANITY, what [is] man the better?
Keywords: IGNORANCE,LIFE,VANITY,WORLDLINESS
Description: Ecclesiastes 6:12
NET Translation: For no one knows what is best for a person during his life—during the few days of his fleeting life—for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.
DARBY Translation: For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?
KJV Translation: For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain lifeVANITY." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">K4425which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Keywords: HAPPINESS,JOY,THORN
Description: Ecclesiastes 7:6
NET Translation: For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.
DARBY Translation: For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: For as the cracklingK4427of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] VANITY.
Keywords: DEATH,GOD
Description: Ecclesiastes 7:15
NET Translation: During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.
DARBY Translation: All [this] have I seen in the days of my VANITY: there is a righteous [man] that perisheth byD4521 his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his days] byD4522 his wickedness.
KJV Translation: All [things] have I seen in the days of my VANITY: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.
Verse Intro: Be Careful in How One Views Self - Expectations Msy Not Be Met
Keywords: CHURCH,DEATH
Description: Ecclesiastes 8:10
NET Translation: Not only that, but I have seen the wicked approaching and entering the temple, and as they left the holy temple, they boasted in the city that they had done so. This also is an enigma.
DARBY Translation: And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went from [the] holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also VANITY.
Verse Intro: Things Do Not Always Occur As Expected
Description: Ecclesiastes 8:14
NET Translation: Here is another enigma that occurs on earth: Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I said, “This also is an enigma.”
DARBY Translation: There is a VANITY which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous [men] unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked [men] to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is VANITY.
KJV Translation: There is a VANITY which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] VANITY.
Keywords: HUSBAND
Description: Ecclesiastes 9:9
NET Translation: Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.
DARBY Translation: EnjoyD4534 life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy VANITY, whichD4535 he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy VANITY; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.
KJV Translation: Live joyfullyK4442with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy VANITY, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy VANITY: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Keywords: DEATH,JOY
Description: Ecclesiastes 11:8
NET Translation: So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many—all that is about to come is obscure.
DARBY Translation: but if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is VANITY.
KJV Translation: But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] VANITY.
Keywords: CHILDREN,VANITY,WORLDLINESS
Description: Ecclesiastes 11:10
NET Translation: Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
DARBY Translation: Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youthD4550 are VANITY.
KJV Translation: Therefore remove sorrowK4455from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] VANITY.
Description: Ecclesiastes 12:8
NET Translation: “Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher, “All these things are futile!”
DARBY Translation: VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is VANITY.
KJV Translation: VANITY of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] VANITY.
Verse Intro: The Utter Futility of Secular Human Endeavors
Keywords: SABBATH,VANITY
Description: Isaiah 1:13
NET Translation: Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations!
DARBY Translation: Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.
KJV Translation: Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquityK4511, even the solemn meeting.
Keywords: INFIDELITY,PRESUMPTION,SCOFFING,SIN,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Isaiah 5:18
NET Translation: Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.
DARBY Translation: Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of VANITY, and sin as with cart-ropes!
KJV Translation: Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of VANITY, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Keywords: SIEVE
Description: Isaiah 30:28
NET Translation: His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.
DARBY Translation: and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destructionVANITY.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D4866, and [to put] a bridle into the jaws of the peoples, that causeth them to go astray.
KJV Translation: And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of VANITY: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.
Description: Isaiah 40:17
NET Translation: All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
DARBY Translation: All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and VANITYD4935.
KJV Translation: All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and VANITY.
Keywords: GOD,RULERS
Description: Isaiah 40:23
NET Translation: He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.
DARBY Translation: that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as VANITY.
KJV Translation: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as VANITY.
Description: Isaiah 41:29
NET Translation: Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.
DARBY Translation: Behold, they are all VANITY, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.
KJV Translation: Behold, they [are] all VANITY; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.
Keywords: CARVING,IDOL,IDOLATRY,VANITY
Description: Isaiah 44:9
NET Translation: All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
DARBY Translation: They that form a graven image are all of them VANITYD4980, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor knowD4981; that they may be ashamed.
KJV Translation: They that make a graven image [are] all of them VANITY; and their delectableK4919things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Verse Intro: Idoltary is Absurd
Keywords: VANITY
Description: Isaiah 44:10
NET Translation: Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
DARBY Translation: Who hath formed a God, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
KJV Translation: Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
Keywords: VANITY,WORKS
Description: Isaiah 57:12
NET Translation: I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.
DARBY Translation: I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee.
KJV Translation: I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Keywords: CONFIDENCE,FAITH,IDOLATRY,VANITY
Description: Isaiah 57:13
NET Translation: When you cry out for help, let your idols help you! The wind blows them all away, a breeze carries them away. But the one who looks to me for help will inherit the land and will have access to my holy mountain.”
DARBY Translation: When thou criest, let them that are gathered by theeD5083 deliver thee! But a wind shall carry them all away, a breath shall take them; but he that putteth his trust in me shall inherit the land, and possess my holy mountain.
KJV Translation: When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; VANITY shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Keywords: PRAYER
Description: Isaiah 58:9
NET Translation: Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’ You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.
DARBY Translation: Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the unjust speechVANITY.' see Zech. 10.2." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D5088,
KJV Translation: Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking VANITY;
Keywords: CHARACTER,FALSEHOOD,MALICE,TRUTH
Description: Isaiah 59:4
NET Translation: No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
DARBY Translation: none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulnessD5092. They trust in VANITYD5093, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
KJV Translation: None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in VANITY, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,GOD,VANITY
Description: Jeremiah 2:5
NET Translation: This is what the Lord says: “What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after VANITY, and become vain?
KJV Translation: 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?
Keywords: CONFIDENCE,DISHONESTY,FALSEHOOD,HYPOCRISY,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,OATH,VANITY
Description: Jeremiah 7:8
NET Translation: “‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.
DARBY Translation: Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.
KJV Translation: Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Keywords: GENTILES,IDOLATRY
Description: Jeremiah 10:3
NET Translation: For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.
DARBY Translation: For the statutes of the peoples are VANITY; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chiselD5240 by the hands of the artizan;
KJV Translation: For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Keywords: VANITY
Description: Jeremiah 10:8
NET Translation: The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
DARBY Translation: But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stockVANITY.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D5241.
KJV Translation: But they are altogetherK5120brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
Keywords: IDOLATRY
Description: Jeremiah 10:15
NET Translation: They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
DARBY Translation: They are VANITY, a work of delusionD5243: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
KJV Translation: They [are] VANITY, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Keywords: AGRICULTURE,VANITY,WHEAT
Description: Jeremiah 12:13
NET Translation: My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.
DARBY Translation: They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, [and] do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CHURCH,FAITH,GENTILES,IDOLATRY,JESUS THE CHRIST,VANITY
Description: Jeremiah 16:19
NET Translation: Then I said, “Lord, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say, ‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods—worthless idols that could not help them at all.’
DARBY Translation: Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of distress, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsehood [and] VANITY; and in these things there is no profit.
KJV Translation: O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, VANITY, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.
Keywords: PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,VANITY
Description: Jeremiah 18:15
NET Translation: Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols. This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.
DARBY Translation: For my people hath forgotten me: they burn incense to VANITY; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in by-paths of a way not cast up;
KJV Translation: Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to VANITY, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
Keywords: VISION
Description: Jeremiah 23:16
NET Translation: The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says to the people of Jerusalem: “Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the Lord has given them to say.
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they lead you to VANITYD5322; they speak a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Keywords: VANITY
Description: Jeremiah 23:32
NET Translation: I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. I, the Lord, affirm it!”
DARBY Translation: Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and that tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their boasting; and I have not sent them, nor commanded them; and they profit not this people at all, saith Jehovah.
KJV Translation: Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Description: Jeremiah 51:18
NET Translation: They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
DARBY Translation: They are VANITY, a work of delusionD5495: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
KJV Translation: They [are] VANITY, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Keywords: MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PROPHETS
Description: Lamentations 2:14
NET Translation: נ (Nun). Your prophets saw visions for you that were worthless whitewash. They failed to expose your sin so as to restore your fortunes. They saw oracles for you that were worthless lies.
DARBY Translation: Thy prophets have seen VANITY and folly for thee; and they have not revealed thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee burdens of falsehood and causes of expulsionD5542.
KJV Translation: Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Keywords: CONFIDENCE,VANITY
Description: Lamentations 4:17
NET Translation: ע (Ayin). Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.
DARBY Translation: Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
KJV Translation: As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].
Verse Intro: Jerusalem Speaks of Being Overrun by the Enemy
Keywords: SORCERY
Description: Ezekiel 13:6
NET Translation: They see delusion and their omens are a lie. They say, “The Lord declares,” though the Lord has not sent them; yet they expect their word to be confirmed.
DARBY Translation: They have seen VANITY and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith! and Jehovah hath not sent them; and they make [them] to hope that the word will be fulfilled.
KJV Translation: They have seen VANITY and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made [others] to hope that they would confirm the word.
Description: Ezekiel 13:8
NET Translation: “‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have spoken false words and forecast delusion, look, I am against you, declares the Sovereign Lord.
DARBY Translation: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye speak VANITY, and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
KJV Translation: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken VANITY, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD.
Description: Ezekiel 13:9
NET Translation: My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council of my people, nor be written in the registry of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.
DARBY Translation: And my hand shall be against the prophets that see VANITY and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the registerD5649 of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.
KJV Translation: And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see VANITY, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assemblyK5539of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
Keywords: SORCERY,WOMEN
Description: Ezekiel 13:23
NET Translation: Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you will know that I am the Lord.’”
DARBY Translation: therefore ye shall no more see VANITY, nor divine divinations; and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
KJV Translation: Therefore ye shall see no more VANITY, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Keywords: SORCERY
Description: Ezekiel 21:29
NET Translation: while seeing false visions about you and reading lying omens about you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of final punishment.
DARBY Translation: whilst they see VANITY for thee, whilst they divine a lie unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are slain, whose day is come at the time of the iniquity of the end.
KJV Translation: Whiles they see VANITY unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.
Keywords: MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,MORTAR,SORCERY
Description: Ezekiel 22:28
NET Translation: Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
DARBY Translation: And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing VANITY and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken.
KJV Translation: And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter], seeing VANITY, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
Keywords: AVEN,PI-BESETH,WOMEN
Description: Ezekiel 30:17
NET Translation: The young men of On and of Pi Beseth will die by the sword; and the cities will go into captivity.
DARBY Translation: The young men of AvenVANITY." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D5804 and of PibesethD5805 shall fall by the sword; and theseD5806 shall go into captivity.
KJV Translation: The young men of AvenK5714and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
Keywords: GILEAD,GILGAL,IDOLATRY
Description: Hosea 12:11
NET Translation: Is there idolatry in Gilead? Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!
DARBY Translation: If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but VANITYVANITY.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D6204: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
KJV Translation: [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are VANITY: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Keywords: BEER-SHEBA,BETH-EL,GILGAL,IDOLATRY
Description: Amos 5:5
NET Translation: Do not seek Bethel. Do not visit Gilgal. Do not journey down to Beer Sheba. For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile, and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.”
DARBY Translation: And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to noughtVANITY,' 'iniquity.' see Hos. 4.15." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D6278.
KJV Translation: But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
Description: Habakkuk 2:13
NET Translation: Be sure of this! The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
DARBY Translation: Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nationsD6439 weary themselves in vainD6440?
KJV Translation: Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very VANITY?K6383
Keywords: CUSHAN,ETHIOPIA,MIDIANITES,TENT
Description: Habakkuk 3:7
NET Translation: I saw the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian were shaking.
DARBY Translation: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
KJV Translation: I saw the tents of CushanK6394 in afflictionVANITY." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">K6395: [and] the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
Keywords: DREAM,IDOLATRY,SORCERY
Description: Zechariah 10:2
NET Translation: For the household gods have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and the dreamers have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd.
DARBY Translation: For the teraphim have spoken VANITY, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams: they comfort in vain. Therefore they have gone away as a flock, they are in distressD6551, because there is no shepherd.
KJV Translation: For the idolsK6486have spoken VANITY, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubledK6487, because [there was] no shepherd.
Keywords: BLASPHEMY,GOD,HYPOCRISY,INFIDELITY,MURMURING,SKEPTICISM,VANITY
Description: Malachi 3:14
NET Translation: You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord of Heaven’s Armies?
DARBY Translation: Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
KJV Translation: Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinanceK6548, and that we have walked mournfullyK6549before the LORD of hosts?
Keywords: GENTILES,PRAYER,VANITY
Description: Matthew 6:7
NET Translation: When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.
DARBY Translation: But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.
KJV Translation: “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen” [do]: “for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
Keywords: DAVID,PROPHECY,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,VANITY
Description: Acts 4:25
NET Translation: who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?
DARBY Translation: who hast said by the mouth of thy servant DavidD7749, Why have [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain things?
KJV Translation: Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Keywords: CATHOLICITY,CONVERTS,DECISION,PERSEVERANCE,SYNAGOGUE
Description: Acts 13:43
NET Translation: When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.
DARBY Translation: And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshippingVANITY of idolatry and detesting its disorders, attended the Jewish worship." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D7835 proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
KJV Translation: Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
Keywords: RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE,PAUL
Description: Acts 13:50
NET Translation: But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.
DARBY Translation: But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippersVANITY of idolatry and detesting its disorders, attended the Jewish worship." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D7837, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.
KJV Translation: But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Keywords: CONSCIENCE,DARKNESS,GLORIFYING GOD,GODLESSNESS,HEART,IMAGINATION,INGRATITUDE,SIN,THANKFULNESS,VANITY,WISDOM
Description: Romans 1:21
NET Translation: For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.
DARBY Translation: BecauseD7972, knowing God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughtsD7973, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
KJV Translation: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,VANITY
Description: Romans 8:20
NET Translation: For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly but because of God who subjected it—in hope
DARBY Translation: for the creature has been made subject to VANITY, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope
KJV Translation: For the creature was made subject to VANITY, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,
Keywords: GOD,HEART,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,VANITY
Description: 1 Corinthians 3:20
NET Translation: And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
DARBY Translation: And againD8245, [The] Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.
KJV Translation: And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Keywords: BENEFICENCE,LIBERALITY,MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION,POOR,VANITY,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 1 Corinthians 13:3
NET Translation: If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
DARBY Translation: And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.
KJV Translation: And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Keywords: ADULTERY,AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,CONSCIENCE,DEPRAVITY OF MAN,EXAMPLE,GENTILES,LASCIVIOUSNESS,OBEDIENCE,PRIDE,VANITY,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Ephesians 4:17
NET Translation: So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
DARBY Translation: This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk asD8633 [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] VANITY of their mind,
KJV Translation: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the VANITY of their mind,
Verse Intro: Living Out the New Life in Holiness
Keywords: HUMILITY,PRIDE,RESPECT,STRIFE,UNSELFISHNESS
Description: Philippians 2:3
NET Translation: Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or VANITY, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
DARBY Translation: [let] nothingD8691 [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;
KJV Translation: [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Keywords: DOCTRINES,VANITY
Description: 1 Timothy 1:6
NET Translation: Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.
DARBY Translation: which [things] some having missedD8838, have turned aside to vain discourse,
KJV Translation: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
Keywords: DOCTOR,DOCTRINES,VANITY
Description: 1 Timothy 1:7
NET Translation: They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.
DARBY Translation: desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they [so] strenuously affirm.
KJV Translation: Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Keywords: ASCETICISM,HOLINESS,IMMORTALITY,LIFE,RIGHTEOUS,VANITY
Description: 1 Timothy 4:8
NET Translation: For “physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”
DARBY Translation: for bodily exercise is profitable for a littleD8873, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.
KJV Translation: For bodily exercise profiteth littleK7114: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Keywords: AGENCY,BACKSLIDERS,DOCTRINES,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PHILOSOPHY,PREACHING,RESPONSIBILITY,SCIENCE,STRIFE,VANITY,WISDOM
Description: 1 Timothy 6:20
NET Translation: O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called “knowledge.”
DARBY Translation: O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
KJV Translation: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Keywords: DOCTRINES,INFLUENCE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,STRIFE,VANITY,WORDS
Description: 2 Timothy 2:14
NET Translation: Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.
DARBY Translation: Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.
KJV Translation: Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.
Verse Intro: Dealing with False Teachers
Keywords: DOCTRINES,HOLINESS,PREACHING,VANITY
Description: 2 Timothy 2:16
NET Translation: But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,
DARBY Translation: But profane, vain babblings shun, for theyD8912 will advance to greater impiety,
KJV Translation: But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Keywords: GENEALOGY,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PREACHING,STRIFE,VANITY
Description: Titus 3:9
NET Translation: But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.
DARBY Translation: But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.
KJV Translation: But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Keywords: CHARACTER,COMMANDMENTS,DECISION,DOCTRINES,HOLINESS,INSTABILITY,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSEVERANCE,STABILITY,VANITY
Description: Hebrews 13:9
NET Translation: Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
DARBY Translation: Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for [it is] good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by [them].
KJV Translation: Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Keywords: BRIDLE,HYPOCRISY,SELF-DECEPTION,SPEAKING,VANITY
Description: James 1:26
NET Translation: If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
DARBY Translation: If any one think himselfD9183 to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
KJV Translation: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.
Keywords: HYPOCRISY,RIGHTEOUSNESS,VANITY,WORKS
Description: James 2:14
NET Translation: What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?
DARBY Translation: What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?
KJV Translation: What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Verse Intro: Reality of Faith Demonstrated by Works
Keywords: ATONEMENT,BLOOD,DEPRAVITY OF MAN,GOLD,JESUS THE CHRIST,MONEY,REDEMPTION,TRADITION,VANITY
Description: 1 Peter 1:18
NET Translation: You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed—not by perishable things like silver or gold,
DARBY Translation: knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from [your] fathers,
KJV Translation: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
Keywords: AFFECTIONS,COMPANY,FELLOWSHIP,LUST,TEMPTATION,VANITY,WORLDLINESS
Description: 2 Peter 2:18
NET Translation: For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
DARBY Translation: For [while] speaking great highflown words of VANITY, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
KJV Translation: For when they speak great swelling [words] of VANITY, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were cleanK7281escaped from them who live in error.