Quotes About Futility

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.

In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a womanís stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.