New Living Translation
Job 27:8
8For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and 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?
- 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 will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live. 7“May my enemy be punished like the wicked, my adversary like those who do evil. For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life? 9Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them? 10Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?
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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 wicked will be blinded. They will have no escape. Their only hope is death.”
- Job 13:16But this is what will save me—I am not godless. If I were, I could not stand before him.
- Job 15:34For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been short lived and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?
- Job 31:3Isn’t it calamity for the wicked and misfortune for those who do evil?
- Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear. Terror seizes the godless. “Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry. “Who can survive this all-consuming fire?”
- Matthew 16:26And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
- Mark 8:36And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
- Luke 9:25And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?
- Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
- 1 Timothy 6:9But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- James 5:1Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of 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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