See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.
NIV
Behold, these [pagan prophets and priests] are all emptiness (falseness and futility)! Their works are worthless; their molten images are empty wind (confusion and waste).
AMP
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
KJV
Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.
NIV
Men of low degree [in the social scale] are emptiness (futility, a breath) and men of high degree [in the same scale] are a lie and a delusion. In the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
AMP
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
KJV
Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!
NIV
O [earnestly] remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!
AMP
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
KJV
They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.
NIV
They are worthless (emptiness, falsity, futility), a work of delusion and worthy of derision; in the time of their inspection and punishment they shall [helplessly] perish.
AMP
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
KJV
