God’s Word Translation
Job 27:8
8After all, what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Job 27:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
- New International Version (NIV)For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
- English Standard Version (ESV)For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
- New King James Version (NKJV)For what is the hope of the hypocrite, Though he may gain much, If God takes away his life?
Context of Job 27:8
6I cling to my righteousness and won’t let go. My conscience won’t accuse me as long as I live. 7“Let my enemy be ⌞treated⌟ like wicked people. Let anyone who attacks me be ⌞treated⌟ like unrighteous people. After all, what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? 9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? 10Can he be happy with the Almighty? Can he call on God at all times?
Read all of Job 27Job 27:8 word by word
כִּ֤י מַה־תִּקְוַ֣ת חָ֭נֵף כִּ֣י יִבְצָ֑ע כִּ֤י יֵ֖שֶׁל אֱל֣וֹהַּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 27:8
- Job 11:20But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath.”
- Job 13:16This also will be my salvation because no godless person could face him.
- Job 15:34because a mob of godless people produces nothing, and fire burns up the tents of those who offer bribes.
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless person lasts only a moment?
- Job 31:3Aren’t there catastrophes for wicked people and disasters for those who do wrong?
- Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are terrified. Trembling seizes the ungodly. Can any of us live through a fire that destroys? Can any of us live through a fire that burns forever?
- Matthew 16:26What good will it do for people to win the whole world and lose their lives? Or what will a person give in exchange for life?
- Mark 8:36What good does it do for people to win the whole world yet lose their lives?
- Luke 9:25What good does it do for people to win the whole world but lose their lives by destroying them?
- Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You fool! I will demand your life from you tonight! Now who will get what you’ve accumulated?’
- 1 Timothy 6:9But people who want to get rich keep falling into temptation. They are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires which drown them in destruction and ruin.
- James 5:1Pay attention to this if you’re rich. Cry and moan about the misery that is coming to you.
Commentaries on Job 27:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8What is the hope of the hypocrite - The word חנף chaneph, which we translate, most improperly, hypocrite, means a wicked fellow, a defiled, polluted wretch, a rascal, a knave, a man who sticks at nothing in order to gain his ends. In this verse it means a dishonest man, a rogue, who by overreaching, cheating, etc., has amassed a fortune. When God taketh away his soul? - Could he have had any well grounded hope of eternal blessedness when he was acquiring…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8For what is the hope of the hypocrite? - The same sentiment which Job here advances had before been expressed by Bildad; see it explained in the notes at Job 8:13 following It had also been expressed in a similar manner by Zophar (see the notes on Job 20:5, and had been much insisted on in their arguments. Job now says that he fully accords with that belief. He was not disposed to defend hypocrisy; he had no sympathy for it. He knew, as they did, that all…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-10Verses 7-10 Job looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man, to be most miserable. If they gained through life by their profession, and kept up their presumptuous hope till death, what would that avail when God required their souls? The more comfort we find in our religion, the more closely we shall cleave to it. Those who have no delight in God, are easily drawn away by the pleasures, and easily overcome by the crosses of this life. (Job…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. "What hope hath the hypocrite, notwithstanding all his gains, when?" &c. "Gained" is antithetic to "taketh away." Umbreit's translation is an unmeaning tautology. "When God cuts off, when He taketh away his life." taketh away--literally, "draws out" the soul from the body, which is, as it were, its scabbard (Job 4:21; Psa 104:29; Da 7:15). Job says that he admits what Bildad said (Job 8:13) and Zophar (Job 20:5). But he says the very fact of his still…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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