Job 27:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, When God taketh away his soul?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For what is the hope of the godless and polluted, even though he has gained [in this world], when God cuts him off and takes away his life?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

Common English Bible

⁸ For what hope has the godless when God cuts them off, when he takes them away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For what hope is there for the hypocrite, if he greedily plunders and God does not free his soul?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 27:8 Cross References

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee, And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.

Job 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.

Job 13:16

This also shall be my salvation; For a godless man shall not come before him.

Job 15:34

For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 27:7

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

Job 31:3

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Job 8:13

So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:

Matthew 16:26

For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

John 9:31

We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.

Deuteronomy 1:45

And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.

1 Samuel 8:18

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.