Job 27:8
For what hope do those who reject God have when he cuts them down, when God brings their lives to an end?
Free Bible Version
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
7May my enemy become like the wicked; may those who oppose me become like those who do evil.
9When times of trouble come to them, will God hear their cry for help?
Cross References
Job 8:13This is what happens to everyone who forgets God. The hopes of those who live without God come to nothing.
Job 13:16By doing this I will be saved since no godless person could come before him.
Job 20:5that the triumph of the wicked doesn't last long, that those who reject God are only happy for a short time?
Isaiah 33:14The sinners who live in Zion tremble with fear; those who are irreligious are overcome with terror. They ask, “Who can live with this fire that consumes everything? Who can live among such everlasting burning?”
Matthew 23:13But what a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You slam shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves don't go in, yet you don't let anyone in who is trying to enter.
Luke 9:25What do you benefit by gaining the whole world if you end up lost or destroyed?
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 →