Job 15:31 · KJV
“Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.”
— Job 15:31
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.
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. {accomplished: or, cut off}
Job 15 — Context
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. {accomplished: or, cut off}
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Cross References
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.
Galatians 6:7-8
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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. {stalk: or, standing corn}
Psalms 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart {upon them}.
Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. {the rod...: or, with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed}
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?
Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.