diff --git a/R/qenv-get_code.R b/R/qenv-get_code.R
index a345cf9d1..5e8fe048c 100644
--- a/R/qenv-get_code.R
+++ b/R/qenv-get_code.R
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ setMethod("get_code", signature = "qenv.error", function(object, ...) {
       sprintf(
         "%s\n\ntrace: \n %s\n",
         conditionMessage(object),
-        paste(lang2calls(object$trace), collapse = "\n ")
+        paste(object$trace, collapse = "\n ")
       ),
       class = c("validation", "try-error", "simpleError")
     )
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-qenv_get_code.R b/tests/testthat/test-qenv_get_code.R
index 9166b1b0b..099f0a36f 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-qenv_get_code.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-qenv_get_code.R
@@ -41,6 +41,6 @@ testthat::test_that("get_code called with qenv.error returns error with trace in
   testthat::expect_equal(class(code), c("validation", "try-error", "simpleError", "error", "condition"))
   testthat::expect_equal(
     code$message,
-    "object 'v' not found \n when evaluating qenv code:\nw <- v\n\ntrace: \n c(\"x <- 1\", \"y <- x\", \"w <- v\")\n"
+    "object 'v' not found \n when evaluating qenv code:\nw <- v\n\ntrace: \n x <- 1\n y <- x\n w <- v\n"
   )
 })