Job 15:31

He will not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he could be redeemed at any price.

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In The King James Version

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

In Context

30He will not withdraw from the darkness; the flame will burn up his branches, and he will be defeated by the breath of his own mouth.

32Before his time is completed, he will pass into ruin and his hands will wither away.

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Cross References

Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom; he knows both the deceiver and he who is deceived.

Proverbs 22:8Whoever sows iniquity will reap evils, and by the rod of his own wrath he will be consumed.

Isaiah 44:20Part of it is ashes. His foolish heart adores it. And he will not liberate his soul, and he will not say, “Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.”

Jeremiah 37:9But even if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and if there were left behind from among them only a few wounded men, they would rise up, each one from his tent, and they would burn this city with fire.”

Jonah 2:8When my soul was in anguish within me, I called to mind the Lord, so that my prayer might come to you, to your holy temple.

Galatians 6:7Do not choose to wander astray. God is not to be ridiculed.

Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35

17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →

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