Parallel Verses
Webster
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
New American Standard Bible
When God requires
King James Version
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Holman Bible
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?
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?
Themes
Calling » Who only calls upon God when they are in trouble
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Hope » Messianic » Of the wicked
Hope » The hope of the hypocrite
Hope » Of the wicked » Shall be extinguished in death
Topics
Interlinear
Tiqvah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
7 Let my 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?
Names
Cross References
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the expiration of the breath.
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Job 13:16
He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 20:5
That the triumphing 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 a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Isaiah 33:14-15
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Matthew 23:13
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in.
Mark 8:36-37
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul:
Luke 9:25
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Luke 12:20-21
But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But they that will be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
James 5:1-3
Come now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.