Job 15 · Verse 31

Job 15:31

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

Job 15:31, King James Version

Job 15:31 in other translations

BSB	Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
WEB	Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
ASV	Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
YLT	Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
DARBY	Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
BBE	Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
Webster	Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.

What does Job 15:31 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

31. Rather, "let him not trust in vanity or he will be deceived," &c. vanity--that which is unsubstantial. Sin is its own punishment (Pr 1:31; Jr 2:19).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 31 Let not him that is deceived - 7. He has many vain imaginations of obtaining wealth, power, pleasure, and happiness; but he is deceived; and he finds that he has trusted בשוא bashshav, in a lie; and this lie is his recompense.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35

Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…

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Job 15:31 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַל\־'al-may notH408

יַאֲמֵ֣ןya.'a.Menhe trustH539

בַּשָּׁ֣יוba.shovin <the> worthlessnessH7723

נִתְעָ֑הnit.'Ahhe has been led astrayH8582

כִּי\־ki-forH3588

שָׁ֝֗וְאShav'worthlessnessH7723

תִּהְיֶ֥הtih.Yehit will beH1961

תְמוּרָתֽוֹ\׃te.mu.ra.Torecompense hisH8545

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 15:31

Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Psalms 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Galatians 6:7-8
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 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.
Hosea 8:7
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
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Job 12:16
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Isaiah 44:20
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?
Isaiah 17:10-11
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: 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

not him.
12:16; Isa 44:20; Ga 6:3,7; Eph 5:6
trust.
Ps 62:10; Isa 59:4; Jon 2:8
for vanity.
4:8; Pr 22:8; Isa 17:10,11; Ho 8:7; Ga 6:8

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Context

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Job 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

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Job 15:31 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	No confíe el iluso en la vanidad; porque ella será su recompensa.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Qu’il ne compte pas sur la vanité: il sera déçu, car la vanité sera sa récompense;
German Elberfelder 1871	Er verlasse sich nicht auf Nichtiges, er wird getäuscht; denn Nichtiges wird seine Vergeltung sein.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Non credet, frustra errore deceptus, quod aliquo pretio redimendus sit.