Job 8:13
Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
In Context
12When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
14His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:12and when you will have eaten and been satisfied:
Deuteronomy 8:14your heart might be lifted up, and you might not remember the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude,
Job 11:20But the eyes of the impious will fade away, and the path to escape will perish before them, for the abomination of the soul is their hope.
Job 15:34For the congregation of the hypocrites is fruitless, and fire will devour the tabernacles of those who love to accept money.
Job 20:5that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
Job 36:13The false and the crafty provoke the wrath of God, yet they do not cry out to him when they are chained.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →