Job 27:8
For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?
Literal Standard 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
7My enemy is as the wicked, || And my withstander as the perverse.
9[Does] God hear his cry, || When distress comes on him?
Cross References
Job 8:13So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, || And the hope of the profane perishes,
Job 13:16Also—He [is] to me for salvation, || For the profane do not come before Him.
Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Isaiah 33:14Sinners have been afraid in Zion, || Trembling has seized the profane: Who dwells for us—consuming fire, || Who dwells for us—burnings of the age?
Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you permit those going in to enter.
Luke 9:25for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited 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 →