Ecclesiastes 2:11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:19
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other--they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Ecclesiastes 4:4, 8, 16
I saw that all labor and success spring from a man's envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 6:11
For the more words, the more futility--and how does that profit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 11:8, 10
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 12:8
"Futility of futilities, " says the Teacher. "Everything is futile!"

Psalm 39:5, 6
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah . . .

Psalm 62:9, 10
Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they are pushed up; together they are but a breath. . . .

Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope