“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.
No one sues justly, and none pleads a case honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Sons of Adam are a vapor, sons of man are an illusion. In balanced scales they go up— altogether they are less than a breath.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s judgment comes on the children of disobedience.
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he is fooling himself.
As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.
“For they sow wind, and reap a whirlwind. There is no mature grain— the sprout yields no meal. Should it produce anything, strangers would swallow it up.
He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”
One who sows injustice will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will perish.
With Him are power and sound wisdom; both deceived and deceiver are His.
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow harm, reap them.
“If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has hurried to deceit,
Indeed God does not hear an empty cry; Shaddai pays no attention to it.
for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Thus says Adonai: “Do not deceive yourselves, saying: ‘The Chaldeans will surely depart from us’—for they will not depart.