Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
Job 15:31
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- KJV
- Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- 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.
- LSV
- Do not let him put credence in vanity, || He has been deceived, || For vanity is his exchange.
- YLT
- Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
- DBY
- Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
- DRC
- He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
- GNV
- He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
- JPS
- Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.
- LXXE
- Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
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- Written (Ketiv): בַּשּׁוֹ (“in the worthlessness”). Read aloud (Qere): בַּשָּׁ֣יו (“in the worthlessness”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads בַּשָּׁ֣ו; read aloud (Qere) reads בַּשָּׁ֣יו (“in the worthlessness”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַל־יַאֲמֵ֣ן בשו נִתְעָ֑ה כִּי־שָׁ֝֗וְא תִּהְיֶ֥ה תְמוּרָתֽוֹ׃Read aloud as (qere): בַּשָּׁ֣יו
- LXX-Br
- Μὴ πιστευέτω ὅτι ὑπομενεῖ, κενὰ γὰρ ἀποβήσεται αὐτῷ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
- Galatians 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Galatians 6:7–8Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the…
- Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
- Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
- Proverbs 22:8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
- Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- Job 12:16True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
- Isaiah 17:10–11For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— though on the day you plant you…
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