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Eccles 6:4
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For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
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Eccles 8:14
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There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.
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Eccles 11:10
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Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain.
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Wis 3:11
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For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.
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Wis 13:1
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But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:
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Wis 15:8
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And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life which was lent him shall be called for again.
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Wis 15:9
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But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things.
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Wis 15:10
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For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth, and his life more base than clay:
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Eccli 16:23
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He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things: and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things.
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Eccli 20:21
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A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise.
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Eccli 23:14
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And if he swear in vain, he shall not be justified: for his house shall be filled with his punishment.
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Eccli 34:1
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The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
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Isa 1:13
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Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
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Isa 29:21
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That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.
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Isa 30:7
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For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.
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Isa 41:29
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Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.
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Isa 45:18
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For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.
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Isa 45:19
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I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.
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Isa 49:4
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And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
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Isa 49:4
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And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
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Isa 56:10
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His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.
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Isa 65:23
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My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.
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Jer 2:5
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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?
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Jer 2:30
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In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.
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Jer 4:30
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But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.
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Jer 6:29
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The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.
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Jer 10:3
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For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.
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Jer 10:15
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They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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Jer 18:15
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Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden:
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Jer 46:11
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Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.
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Jer 50:9
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For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.
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Jer 51:18
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They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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Lam 4:17
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Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.
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Ezech 6:10
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And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them.
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Ezech 12:24
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For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful divination in the midst of the children of Israel.
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Ezech 13:6
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They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to confirm what they have said.
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Ezech 13:7
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Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken.
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Ezech 13:8
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Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken vain things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come against you, saith the Lord God.
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Ezech 13:9
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And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
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Ezech 13:23
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Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor divine divinations any more, and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Ezech 21:23
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And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken.
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Ezech 21:29
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Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose appointed day is come in the time of iniquity.
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Ezech 22:28
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And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken.
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Osee 12:11
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If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
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Jon 2:9
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They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.
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Hab 2:13
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Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.
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Zach 10:2
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For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.
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Mal 3:14
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And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
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I Mac 9:68
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And they fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them: and they afflicted him exceedingly, for his counsel, and his enterprise was in vain.
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II Mac 7:34
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But thou, O wicked and of all men most flagitious, be not lifted up without cause with vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his servants.
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