Quotes about Illusion
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
- Job 4:16
Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- Job 15:31
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
- Job 20:8
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalm 39:6
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalm 62:9
Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
- Psalm 73:20
One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
- Proverbs 13:7
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Proverbs 16:25
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
- Proverbs 23:5
as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 29:8
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 41:29
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
- Isaiah 44:20