Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

I beheld all the works that were done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

So I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was evil before me. For all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

And I saw all labor, and all the diligent work, that this is a man's envy from his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

For who knows [what is] good for a man in his life, [during] the number of the life of the days of his vanity? And he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike, [formed] out of vanity.