Job 15:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

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  • Isa 59:4 : 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 for if any one doth think `himself' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap, 8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
  • Job 4:8 : 8 As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
  • Job 12:16 : 16 With Him `are' strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
  • Isa 17:10-11 : 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it, 11 In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap `is' the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'

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  • 8 Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

  • 32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

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  • 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

  • 6 Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

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  • 8 The wisdom of the prudent `is' to understand his way, And the folly of fools `is' deceit.

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  • 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

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  • 13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

  • 7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

  • 17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

  • 31 Who doth declare to his face his way? And `for' that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?

  • 21 For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

  • 35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

  • 14 Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, `Is' a man boasting himself in a false gift.

  • 6 Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.