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Ecclesiastes 5:7
For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
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Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
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Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
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Ecclesiastes 1:6-9
The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.What has been is what will be, and what has been 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, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks,“ For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1-4
Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3-11
I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine— my heart still guiding me with wisdom— and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man.So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 3:19
For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
