Job 27:8
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For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 13:16 And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.

Job 15:34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Isaiah 33:14,15 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings? . . .

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

Mark 8:36,37 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? . . .

Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself?

Luke 12:20,21 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? . . .

1 Timothy 6:9,10 For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. . . .

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one. 8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?…
Cross References
Luke 12:20
But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

John 9:31
Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.

Deuteronomy 1:45
And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not, neither would he yield to your voice.

Job 8:13
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

Job 27:7
Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

Lexicon
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

what
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

hope
תִּקְוַ֣ת (tiq·waṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8615: A cord, expectancy

has the godless
חָ֭נֵף (ḥā·nêp̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2611: Profane, irreligious

when
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

he is cut off,
יִבְצָ֑ע (yiḇ·ṣā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1214: To cut off, break off, gain by violence

when
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

God
אֱל֣וֹהַּ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

takes away
יֵ֖שֶׁל (yê·šel)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7953: To draw out, off, remove

his life?
נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃ (nap̄·šōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion


Additional Translations
For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul?

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
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