God is strong and always wins.\par Winners and losers all belong to God!\par
Job 15:31 - Easy To Read Version The evil person should not fool himself\par when he trusts worthless things.\par Why? He will get nothing.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: For vanity shall be his recompence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense. Common English Bible They shouldn’t trust in what has no worth, for their reward will be worthless. Catholic Public Domain Version He will not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he could be redeemed at any price. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price. |
God is strong and always wins.\par Winners and losers all belong to God!\par
It is true, God won’t listen\par to their worthless begging.\par God All-Powerful won’t\par pay attention to them.\par
I have seen some troublemakers\par and people who make life hard.\par But they are always punished!\par
Don’t trust the power to take things by force.\par Don’t think you will gain anything by stealing.\par And if you become rich,\par don’t trust your riches to help you.\par
A person who spreads trouble will harvest trouble. And in the end, that person will be destroyed because of the trouble he gave other people.
That man does not know what he is doing. He is confused, so his heart leads him the wrong way. That man can’t save himself. And he can’t see that he is doing wrong. That man will not say, “This statue I am holding is a false god.”
No person tells the truth about other people. People sue each other in court, and they depend on false arguments to win their cases. They tell lies about each other. They are full of trouble, and they give birth to evil.
This is what the Lord says: ‘People of Jerusalem, don’t fool yourselves. Don’t say to yourselves, “The army of Babylon will surely leave us alone.” They will not.
The Israelites \{did a foolish thing\}—it was like trying to plant the wind. But \{they will get only troubles\}—they will harvest a whirlwind. The grain in the fields will grow. It will give no food. Even if it grew something, strangers would eat it.
“Some people worship useless idols.\par But those statues never help them. {\cf2\super [12]} \par
If a person thinks that he is important when he is really not important, he is only fooling himself.
Don’t let any person fool you by telling you things that are not true. Those evil things make God angry with the people who don’t obey.