Job 15:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־יַאֲמֵן בַּשָּׁיו נִתְעָה כִּי־שָׁוְא תִּהְיֶה תְמוּרָתוֹ

Transliteration

ʾal-yaʾămēn baššāw nitʿāh kî-šāwəʾ tihyeh təmûrātô

Grammar Details

*ʾal-yaʾămēn*: negative particle + hiphil imperfect jussive, 3rd masculine singular - let him not trust
*baššāw*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in vanity
*nitʿāh*: niphal participle, masculine singular - deceived
*kî-šāwəʾ*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - for emptiness
*tihyeh*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - will be
*təmûrātô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his recompense

Word Meanings

*ʾāman*: to believe, trust, have faith in
*šāw*: vanity, falsehood, worthlessness
*tāʿāh*: to wander, stray, err
*šāwəʾ*: emptiness, vanity, falsehood
*hāyāh*: to be, become, happen
*təmûrāh*: exchange, recompense, substitute

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Referenced Verses

Isa 59:4 : 4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Hos 8:7 : 7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.
Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
Job 4:8 : 8 According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.
Job 12:16 : 16 With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Ps 62:10 : 10 Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon].
Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Isa 17:10-11 : 10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips. 11 In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

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