New Revised Standard Version
Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves; for emptiness will be their recompense.

Contemporary English Version
They have put their trust in something worthless; now they will become worthless

New American Bible
Let him not trust in his height, misled, even though his height be like the palm tree.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.

He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.

not him

Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived.

Isaiah 44:20 Part 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.

Galatians 6:3,7 For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. . . .

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

trust

Psalm 62:10 Trust not in iniquity, and covet not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

Isaiah 59:4 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.

Jonah 2:8 When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.

for vanity

Job 4:8 On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

Isaiah 17:10,11 Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed. . . .

Hosea 8:7 For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

Galatians 6:8 For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.