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Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there is also vanity. But fear God.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
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Hosea 12:1
“ Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the east wind; He daily increases lies and desolation. Also they make a covenant with the Assyrians, And oil is carried to Egypt.
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Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.
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Ecclesiastes 1:6-9
The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit.All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again.All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people over whom he was made king; Yet those who come afterward will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, without companion: He has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his labors, Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. But he never asks,“ For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?” This also is vanity and a grave misfortune.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1-4
Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comforter— On the side of their oppressors there is power, But they have no comforter.Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, More than the living who are still alive.Yet, better than both is he who has never existed, Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3-11
I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards.I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove.I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me.I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds.So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor.Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 3:19
For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.
