Job 15:31

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

³⁰ “He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
³¹ “Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.
³² “It will be accomplished before his time,
And his palm branch will not be green.

Trust In Vanity

Job

No

Isaiah 59:4

No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly.
They trust in confusion and speak lies;
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

Job 4:8

“According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity
And those who sow trouble harvest it.

Job 12:16

“With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in oppression
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows iniquity will reap vanity,
And the rod of his fury will perish.

Isaiah 17:10-11

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
It yields no grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

Jonah 2:8

“Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,

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 a man 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 comes upon the sons of disobedience.