'Futile' in the Bible

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

“I know his fury,” declares the Lord,“But it is futile;His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.

who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,‘Why did the Gentiles rage,And the peoples devise futile things?

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,