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Let me give you some thoughts on how

the word “vanity” is used in other places. It

is used with idols in Zechariah 10:2 because

an idol can't help you. So when Solomon

says “Vanity of vanities,” he's talking about

things that do not last, things that have no

real substance to them. An idol can't help

you, can't bless you. In James 4 and verse

4, man's life is as a vapor, that is, it's vain in

the sense that it's short-lived; it's passing

away; one generation comes, it passes

away, and another comes. Psalm 39, verse

5, says, “…every man at his best state is

altogether vanity.” Why? Our life is short-

lived. Psalm 90, verses 2 through 10, gives

us an estimate of the world, and then in

Romans 8, verses 20 and 21, we see that

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