Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
In Context
9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
11I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?
Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.
Habakkuk 3:18Yet I will rejoice in LORD. I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Luke 18:1And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,
Ephesians 6:18praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,
Matthew Henry on Job 27:8-11
Condition of Hypocrites. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? 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.… Read the whole commentary →