New King James Version
Job 27:8
8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, Though he may gain much, If 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 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
6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live. 7“May my enemy be like the wicked, And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, Though he may gain much, If God takes away his life? 9Will God hear his cry When trouble comes upon him? 10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call on God?
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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 they shall not escape, And their hope—loss of life!”
- Job 13:16He also shall be my salvation, For a hypocrite could not come before Him.
- Job 15:34For the company of hypocrites will be barren, And fire will consume the tents of bribery.
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?
- Job 31:3Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
- Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
- Matthew 16:26For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Matthew 23:14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
- Mark 8:36For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
- Luke 9:25For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
- 1 Timothy 6:9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- James 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon 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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