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The Definition of Vanity
Commentators explain that "vanity" refers to anything unsubstantial that cannot provide true security. This includes worldly things like wealth, rank, and power, but also self-reliance, such as trusting in one's own righteousness. As Albert Barnes notes, these things are ultimately empty and will certainly give way when tested.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 15:31
18th Century
Theologian
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity - The sense is, “Let him not trust in vanity. He will be deceived. Vanity will be his …
Charles Ellicott
On Job 15:31
19th Century
Bishop
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity. —Or, Let him not trust in vanity deceiving himself. ([Reference 1 …
John Gill
On Job 15:31
17th Century
Pastor
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity
Every wicked man is deceived, either by Satan, who deceives the whole w…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 15:17–35
17th Century
Minister
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…