Quotes about Futility
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 12:8
The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.
- Isaiah 1:31
We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
- Isaiah 26:18
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
- Isaiah 41:12
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 41:29
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
- Isaiah 44:10
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.
- Isaiah 46:7
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.”
- Isaiah 49:4
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
- Isaiah 57:12
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Jeremiah 10:15
“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
- Jeremiah 14:14