vain

¶ Then Dauid returned to blesse his houshold: and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meete Dauid, and said, How glorious was the King of Israel to day, who vncouered himselfe to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his seruants, as one of the vaine fellowes shamelessely vncouereth himselfe!

1611 marginal noteOr, openly.

And they reiected his Statutes, and his Couenant that hee made with their fathers, and his Testimonies which he testified against them, and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not doe like them.

Thou sayest, (but they are but vaine words) I haue counsell and strength for the warre: now on whom doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

1611 marginal noteOr, talkest.

1611 marginal noteHeb. word of the lips.

1611 marginal noteOr, but counsell and strength are for the war.

And there are gathered vnto him vaine men the children of Belial, and haue strengthened themselues against Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young, & tender hearted, and could not withstand them.

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine?

For, he knoweth vaine men: hee seeth wickednesse also, will he not then consider it?

For vaine man would be wise; though man be borne like a wilde asses coult.

1611 marginal noteHebr. emptie.

Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde?

1611 marginal noteHeb. knowledge of wind

Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou answerest?

1611 marginal noteHeb. words of wind.

How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaineth falshood?

1611 marginal noteHeb. transgression.