Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
In Context
7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
Cross References
Job 8:13Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
Job 13:16And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.
Job 20:5that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Matthew 23:13But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.
Luke 9:25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, and cast away himself?
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 →