A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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VANITY.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.—Job, xxxv. 13.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth: and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.—Psalm xxxix. 5.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.—Psalm cxliv. 4.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.—Ecclesiastes, i. 2.

Cast not thy serious wit on idle things,

Make not thy free-will slave to vanity.

Davies.

What well-devised ear regards