Genesis 5:29

29and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground athat the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief
 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for rest
from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”

Psalms 127:2

2It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious ctoil;
for he gives to his dbeloved esleep.

Ecclesiastes 1:2-3

2 fVanity
The Hebrew term hebel, translated vanity or vain, refers concretely to a “mist,” “vapor,” or “mere breath,” and metaphorically to something that is fleeting or elusive (with different nuances depending on the context). It appears five times in this verse and in 29 other verses in Ecclesiastes
of vanities, says hthe Preacher,
ivanity of vanities! jAll is vanity.
3 kWhat ldoes man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:13-14

13And I mapplied my heart
The Hebrew term denotes the center of one’s inner life, including mind, will, and emotions
to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy obusiness that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
14I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is pvanity
The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
and a striving after wind.
Or  a feeding on wind; compare Hosea 12:1 (also in Ecclesiastes 1:17; 2:11, 17, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9)


Ecclesiastes 2:11

11Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was svanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing tto be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

17So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for uall is vanity and a striving after wind.

Isaiah 24:5-6

5The earth lies vdefiled
under its inhabitants;
for wthey have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6Therefore xa curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants ysuffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.

Romans 8:20-22

20For the creation zwas subjected to futility, not willingly, but aabecause of him who subjected it, in hope 21that abthe creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that acthe whole creation adhas been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
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