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Job 27:8
8For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their 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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?
Context of Job 27:8
6I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live. 7“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust! For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life? 9Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them? 10Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
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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 eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
- Job 13:16Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless person would dare come before him!
- Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
- Job 20:5that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
- Job 31:3Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?
- Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
- Matthew 16:26What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
- Mark 8:36What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
- Luke 9:25What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
- Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
- 1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
- James 5:1Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on 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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