Job 27:8
For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
Young's Literal Translation
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
7As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
9His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
Cross References
Job 8:13So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
Job 13:16Also — He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Isaiah 33:14Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us — consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us — burnings of the age?
Matthew 23:13'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer 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 →