• Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
  "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher;
  "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
  What profit has a man from all his labor
  In which he toils under the sun?
  
   
• Ecclesiastes 2:1-2
  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity. I said of laughter—“Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
   
• Ecclesiastes 2:11-13
  Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
  And on the labor in which I had toiled;
  And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
  There was no profit under the sun. Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly;
  For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
  Only what he has already done.
  Then I saw that wisdom excels folly
  As light excels darkness.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• James 4:14
  whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
   
• 1 John 2:15-17
  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.