Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
In Context
12It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.
14[It is he] whose trust will be cut off, and but a spider's web is that in which he confideth.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:12Then beware that thou do not forget the Lord, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 8:14Thy heart be then not lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery;
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and the means of escape will vanish from them, and their [sole] hope shall be the breathing out of their soul.
Job 15:34For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Job 20:5That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.
Job 36:13But the hypocrites in heart persevere in wrath; they will not offer entreaty when he bindeth them:
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 →