Job 15:31

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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 calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man think 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 to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Job 4:8 : 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, 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{H8799)} not in oppression, and become not vain{H8799)} in robbery: if riches increase{H8799)}, set{H8799)} not your heart upon them.
Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Isa 17:10-11 : 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

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