But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Job 27:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, When God taketh away his soul? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul? Common English Bible For what hope has the godless when God cuts them off, when he takes them away. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? |
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
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?
But woe unto 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.
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.