Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves; for emptiness will be their recompense.
With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit—
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.
for the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.
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?”
No one brings suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, conceiving mischief and begetting iniquity.
Thus says the Lord: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.
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.
Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty.
For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.