Quotes About Futility

But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaohís wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

Egyptís help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

It will break in pieces like a potterís jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.

No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:

They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ëI am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.í

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”

Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”