Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Job 27:8 in other translations
| BSB | For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? |
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| WEB | For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? |
| ASV | For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul? |
| YLT | For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul? |
| DARBY | For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul? |
| BBE | For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul? |
| Webster | For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? |
What does Job 27:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:7-10
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…
Job 27:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:8
- Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- Luke 12:20-21
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
- Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
- James 5:1-3
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
- Luke 9:25
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
- Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- Job 13:16
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
- Mark 8:36-37
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
- 1 Timothy 6:9-10
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Isaiah 33:14-15
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
- Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
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Context
- Job 27:7
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
- Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
- Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
Job 27:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque ¿cuál es la esperanza del hipócrita, por mucho que hubiere robado, cuando Dios arrebatare su alma? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car quelle est l’espérance de l’impie quand Dieu le retranche, quand ✝Dieu retire son âme? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn was ist des Ruchlosen Hoffnung, wenn Gott abschneidet, wenn er seine Seele herauszieht? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quæ est enim spes hypocritæ, si avare rapiat, et non liberet Deus animam ejus? |