Job 15:31

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

³⁰ "He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed. ³¹ Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense. ³² It will be paid in full {before his time}, and his branch will not flourish.

Trust In Vanity

Job

No

Isaiah 59:4

There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;

Job 4:8

[Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.

Job 12:16

"Strength and sound wisdom [are] with him; [the] deceived and [the] deceiver [are] his.

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain [confidence] in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set [your] heart [on it].

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.

Isaiah 17:10-11

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge; therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, and you {plant} a vine of a foreigner.

Isaiah 44:20

[He] feeds [on] ashes; a {deceived mind} misleads him. And he cannot save {himself}, and he cannot say, "Is [this] not an illusion in my right hand?"

Hosea 8:7

Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. [The] standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. [And] if it would yield, strangers would devour it.

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.

Galatians 6:7-8

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap,

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.