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Keywords: Covenant, Heathen
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 statutes, 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 vain, 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.
Keywords: Months
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: Live
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 breath.
KJV Translation: I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] Vanity.
Keywords: Trust, Vanity
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.
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 Vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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: Ear, God
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: Glory, Love, Seek
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, Sing, Tongue
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 deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and Vanity.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Vanity
Description: Psalms 12:2
NET Translation: People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
DARBY Translation: They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
KJV Translation: They speak Vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
Keywords: Clean, Pure, Soul
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 blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto Vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully:
KJV Translation: He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto Vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Keywords: Man
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 placed, 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 state [is] altogether Vanity. Selah.
Keywords: Beauty, Man
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 away 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 away like a moth: surely every man [is] Vanity. Selah.
Keywords: Art, Heart
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].
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 degree are only Vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than Vanity.
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] altogether [lighter] than Vanity.
Keywords: Years
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: Remember, Time
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: Son, Strength, Years
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 Vanity, 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.
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 Vanity.
KJV Translation: The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] Vanity.
Keywords: Quicken
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 away mine eyes from beholding Vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.
Keywords: Man
Description: Psalms 144:4
NET Translation: People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
DARBY Translation: Man is like to Vanity; 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: Hand
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: Deliver, Hand
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: 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 labour shall increase.
Keywords: Lying, Seek, Tongue, 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: Anger, Reap, Rod
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 iniquity, 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 fail.
Keywords: Convenient, Food, Poverty, 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 me:
Keywords: 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: Vanity
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 wind.
KJV Translation: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] Vanity and vexation of spirit.
Keywords: Joy, Prove
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 enjoy 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.
Keywords: Vanity
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 me 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.
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 fool so 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 me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] Vanity.
Keywords: Sun, Vanity, Work
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: Rule, Wise
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 fool? 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: Man, 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 skill, 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 leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] Vanity and a great evil.
Keywords: Art, Heart, Rest, Travail, Vail
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: Man, Sinner, Vanity
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 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 before God. This also [is] Vanity and vexation of spirit.
Keywords: Man
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 breath; 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: Man, 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 success 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 work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also Vanity and vexation of spirit.
Keywords: Vanity
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.
Keywords: Eye, Soul
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 occupation.
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.
Keywords: Rejoice, Vanity
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 them; 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: Silver
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.
Keywords: Anger, Evil, God, Man, Power, Soul, Stranger
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 stranger 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.
Keywords: Name
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.
Keywords: Better, Vanity
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 desire: 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.
Keywords: Man
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?
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 crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] Vanity.
Keywords: Wicked
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 by his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his days] by 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.
Keywords: Wicked
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.
Keywords: Vanity, Wicked, Work
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: Life, Live, Wife
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: Enjoy life with 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 life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.
KJV Translation: Live joyfully with 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: Live, Man, Rejoice, Remember
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: Evil, Youth
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 youth are Vanity.
KJV Translation: Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] Vanity.
Keywords: 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.
Keywords: Art, Sin, Woe
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: Idle, Sing
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 destruction, 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 Vanity.
KJV Translation: All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and Vanity.
Keywords: Earth
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.
Keywords: Wind
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: Delectable, Image, Raven, Table
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 Vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
KJV Translation: They that make a graven image [are] all of them Vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Keywords: Deliver, Trust, Vanity, Wind
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 thee 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: Halt, King
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 speech,
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: Trust
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 truthfulness. They trust in Vanity, 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.
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: Tree, Work
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 chisel 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: Time, Work
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 delusion: 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: Gentiles, Refuge
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: Ancient, Incense
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 Vanity; 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: Time, Work
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 delusion: 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: FALSE
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 expulsion.
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: Hope, Lying, Vanity
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.
Keywords: Assembly, Hand, Vine
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 register 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 assembly of 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: Deliver, Vine
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: Vanity, Vine
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: Bed
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: Sacrifice
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 Vanity: 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.
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 nations weary themselves in vain?
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?
Keywords: Comfort, False, Idols
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 distress, because there is no shepherd.
KJV Translation: For the idols have 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 troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.
Keywords: Creature, Son
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: Gentiles, Vanity
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 as [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,
Keywords: Better, Mind, Strife
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] nothing [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: Clean, Live
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 clean escaped from them who live in error.