Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
4 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “vanity” →
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
