8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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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?
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
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? …
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.
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-10)Job having solemnly protested the satisfaction he had in his integrity, for the further clearing of himself, here expresses the dread he had of being found a hypocrite. I. He tells us how he startled at the thought of it, for he looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man to be certainly the most miserable condition that any man could be in (Job 27:7): Let my enemy be as the wicked ,…
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