“vain” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word vain appears 137 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 31:35 She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.
- Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
- Leviticus 26:16 I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.
- Leviticus 26:20 Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 5:11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.
- Deuteronomy 32:47 For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
- Josue 7:3 And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few?
- 1 Kings 12:21 And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.
- 1 Kings 25:21 And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.
- 2 Paralipomenon 13:7 And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.
- 2 Paralipomenon 32:15 Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand.
- Job 1:9 And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain?
- Job 6:18 The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.
- Job 9:29 But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
- Job 11:12 A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass’s colt.
- Job 12:24 He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.
- Job 21:34 How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
- Job 27:12 Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
- Job 35:13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
- Job 35:16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.
- Job 39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
- Psalms 2:1 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?
- Psalms 5:10 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.
- Psalms 11:3 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.
- Psalms 23:4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
- Psalms 32:17 Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the abundance of his strength.
- Psalms 37:13 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.
- Psalms 38:7 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.
- Psalms 38:12 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.
- Psalms 40:7 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.
- Psalms 59:13 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man.
- Psalms 61:10 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.
- Psalms 62:10 But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:
- Psalms 72:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
- Psalms 88:48 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?
- Psalms 93:11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.
- Psalms 107:13 O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- Psalms 126:1 Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
- Psalms 126:2 It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,
- Psalms 138:20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
- Proverbs 1:17 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
- Proverbs 12:8 A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt.
- Proverbs 21:6 He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.
- Proverbs 26:7 As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.
- Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19 Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?
- Ecclesiastes 6:4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10 Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain.