New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 27:10
Job 27:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
- New International Version (NIV)Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call on God?
Context of Job 27:10
8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, When God requires his life? 9Will God hear his cry When distress comes upon him? Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times? 11I will instruct you in the power of God; What is with the Almighty I will not conceal. 12Behold, all of you have seen it; Why then do you act foolishly?
Read all of Job 27Job 27:10 word by word
אִם־עַל־שַׁדַּ֥י יִתְעַנָּ֑ג יִקְרָ֖א אֱל֣וֹהַּ בְּכָל־עֵֽת׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 27:10
- Job 22:26For then you will delight in the Almighty And lift up your face to God.
- Psalms 37:4Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.
- Habakkuk 3:18Yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
- Psalms 78:34When He killed them, then they sought Him, And returned and searched diligently for God;
- Matthew 13:21yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.
- Luke 18:1Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,
- Acts 10:2a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.
- Ephesians 6:18With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17pray without ceasing;
Commentaries on Job 27:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? - A truly pious man will delight himself in the Almighty. His supreme happiness will be found in God. He has pleasure in the contemplation of his existence, his perfections, his law, and his government. Coverdale renders this, “Hath he such pleasure and delight in the Almighty that he dare alway call upon God?” The idea of Job is that a hypocrite has not his delight in the Almighty; and, therefore, his condition is…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
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-23Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Alluding to Job 22:26. always call--He may do so in times of prosperity in order to be thought religious. But he will not, as I do, call on God in calamities verging on death. Therefore I cannot be a "hypocrite" (Job 19:25; 20:5; Psa 62:8).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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