'Emptiness' in the Bible

Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

And I said, 'For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain is in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.