Job 8:13
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
14His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:12And thou shalt have eaten and be full:
Deuteronomy 8:14Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.
Job 15:34For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
Job 20:5that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
Job 36:13Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.
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 →