Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

For where is the hope of the godless when he is eliminated; when God takes away his life?

A Conservative Version

For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],
When God takes his life?

Bible in Basic English

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

For what the hope of the profane one if he shall plunder? for God shall draw out his soul.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

for what [is the] hope of [the] godless when he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life?

Modern King James verseion

For what is the hope of the ungodly when He cuts off, when God takes away his soul?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

For what shall be the hope of the impious, though he graspeth with greed, when GOD shall draw forth his soul?

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For what is the hope
תּקוה 
Tiqvah 
Usage: 34

of the hypocrite
חנף 
Chaneph 
Usage: 13

אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

שׁלה 
Shalah 
Usage: 1

References

Fausets

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Job Continues His Final Speech

7 “May my enemy be as the wicked
And my opponent as the unjust.
8 “For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?
9 “Will God hear his cry
When distress comes upon him?


Cross References

Job 11:20

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”

Job 8:13

“So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the godless will perish,

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Job 13:16

“This also will be my salvation,
For a godless man may not come before His presence.

Job 15:34

“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless momentary?

Job 31:3

“Is it not calamity to the unjust
And disaster to those who work iniquity?

Isaiah 33:14-15

Sinners in Zion are terrified;
Trembling has seized the godless.
“Who among us can live with the consuming fire?
Who among us can live with continual burning?”

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Mark 8:36-37

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?

Luke 12:20-21

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

James 5:1-3

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

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