Job 15:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves, for emptiness will be their recompense.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Let him not deceive himself and trust in vanity (emptiness, falseness, and futility), for these shall be his recompense [for such living].

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

Common English Bible

³¹ They shouldn’t trust in what has no worth, for their reward will be worthless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ He will not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he could be redeemed at any price.

Job 15:31 Cross References

Isaiah 59:4

No one brings suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies, conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.

Job 12:16

With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 4:8

As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

Job 31:5

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit—

Job 35:13

Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

Proverbs 24:20

for the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.

Jeremiah 37:9

Thus says the Lord: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.