Job 15:31

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

³⁰ he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. ³¹ “Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.
³² It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.

Trust In Vanity

Job

No

Isaiah 59:4

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Job 4:8

As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

Job 12:16

With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Psalm 62:10

Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.

Isaiah 17:10-11

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

Jonah 2:8

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Galatians 6:7-8

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.