Job 8 · Verse 13

Job 8:13

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
Job 8:13, King James Version

Job 8:13 in other translations

BSBSuch is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
WEBSo are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
ASVSo are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
YLTSo are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
DARBYSo are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
BBESo is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
WebsterSo are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

What does Job 8:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. paths--so "ways" (Pr 1:19). all that forget God--the distinguishing trait of the godless (Psa 9:17; 50:22).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 So are the paths - The papyrus and the rush flourish while they have a plentiful supply of ooze and water; but take these away, and their prosperity is speedily at an end; so it is with the wicked and profane; their prosperity is of short duration, however great it may appear to be in the beginning. Thou also, O thou enemy of God, hast flourished for a time; but the blast of God is come upon thee, and now thou art dried up from the very roots. The hypocrite's hope shall perish - A hypocrite, or rather profligate, has no inward religion, for his heart is not right with God; he has only hope, and that perishes when he gives up the ghost. This is the first place in which the word hypocrite occurs, or the noun חנף chaneph, which rather conveys the idea of pollution and defilement than of hypocrisy. A hypocrite is one who only carries the mask of godliness, to serve secular purposes; who wishes to be taken for a religionist, though he is conscious he has no religion. Such a person cannot have hope of any good, because he knows he is insincere: but the person in the text has hope; therefore hypocrite cannot be the meaning of the original word. But all the vile, the polluted, and the profligate have hope; they hope to end their iniquities before they end life; and they hope to get at last to the kingdom of heaven. Hypocrite is a very improper translation of the Hebrew.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 8:8-19

Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very…

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Job 8:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כֵּ֗ןKen[are] thusH3651
אָ֭רְחוֹת'A.re.chot[the] paths ofH734
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
שֹׁ֣כְחֵיSho.khe.chei[those who] forgetH7911
אֵ֑ל'El<of> GodH410
וְתִקְוַ֖תve.tik.Vatand [the] hope ofH8615
חָנֵ֣ףcha.Nef[the] godlessH2611
תֹּאבֵֽד\׃to.Vedit will be lostH6

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 8:13

  • Psalms 9:17

    The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

  • Job 13:16

    He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

  • 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.

  • Proverbs 10:28

    The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

  • Job 15:34

    For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

  • Luke 12:1-2

    In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

  • Deuteronomy 8:11

    Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

  • Proverbs 12:7

    The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

  • Psalms 50:22

    Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

  • Job 20:5

    That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

  • Deuteronomy 8:19

    And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

  • Isaiah 51:13

    And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
that forget God.
De 6:12; 8:11,14,19; Ps 9:17; 10:4; 50:22; Isa 51:13
the hypocrite's.
11:20; 13:16; 15:34; 18:14; 20:5; 27:8-10; 36:13; Pr 10:28; 12:7
Isa 33:14; La 3:18; Mt 24:51; Lu 12:1,2

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Context

  • Job 8:12

    Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

  • Job 8:13

    So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

  • Job 8:14

    Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

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Job 8:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Tales son los caminos de todos los que olvidan á Dios: y la esperanza del impío perecerá:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tels sont les sentiers de tous ceux qui oublient ✶Dieu; et l’attente de l’impie périra;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Also sind die Pfade aller, die Gottes vergessen; und des Ruchlosen Hoffnung geht zu Grunde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sic viæ omnium qui obliviscuntur Deum, et spes hypocritæ peribit.