Job 27:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Job 27:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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? …
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.
Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

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Conceit Consistency Dead (people)Death Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling

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,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. “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…