Job 15:31

WEB

³¹Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.

KJV

³¹Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

BSB

³¹Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

FBV

³¹They should not trust in things that are worthless, for their reward will be worthless.

Extra References

Isaiah 59:4

⁴No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Galatians 6:3

³For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Hosea 8:7

⁷For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Psalms 62:10

¹⁰Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

⁷Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Job 12:16

¹⁶With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Isaiah 44:20

²⁰He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Jonah 2:8

⁸Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

Job 4:8

⁸According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

Ephesians 5:6

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.