Topic
Vanity, Vanities
16 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 15:35ISBE
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- Psalms 10:7ISBE
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 12:2ISBE
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- Psalms 41:6ISBE
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
- Psalms 89:47ISBE
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- Psalms 144:8ISBE
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- Psalms 144:11ISBE
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:
- Proverbs 21:6ISBE
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- Proverbs 22:8ISBE
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
- Isaiah 41:29ISBE
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
- Isaiah 57:13ISBE
¶ 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;
- Isaiah 58:9ISBE
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;
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- Acts 14:15 ISBE
- Romans 8:20 ISBE
- Ephesians 4:17 ISBE
- 2 Peter 2:18 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 16 references
"Vanity" does not often occur in the New Testament; but see VAIN, VAINGLORY. In Ac 14:15 we have mataios, "empty," translated "vanities" (of idols); mataiotes, "emptiness," "transitoriness" (Ro 8:20, "The creation was subjected to vanity," frailty, transitoriness); "emptiness," "folly" (Eph 4:17; 2Pe 2:18).
Among other changes for "vanity" the Revised Version (British and American) has "iniquity" (Job 15:35; Ps 10:7); "falsehood" (Ps 12:2; 41:6); "deceit" (Ps 144:8,11); "vapor" (Pr 21:6); "calamity" (Pr 22:8 margin "vanity"); "a breath" (Isa 57:13); "wickedly" (Isa 58:9). Conversely, for "Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?" (Ps 89:47), "For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!"; for "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing" (Isa 41:29), "Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought," margin as the King James Version, with "nought" for "nothing."
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.