Job 15:31
He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
In Context
32Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
Cross References
Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver, and him that is deceived.
Proverbs 22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.
Isaiah 44:20Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.
Jeremiah 37:9But if you should even beat al: the army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his tent, and burn this city with Are.
Jonah 2:8When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.
Galatians 6:7Be not deceived, God is not mocked.
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 →