Job 27:8

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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WLC

כִּ֤י מַה־תִּקְוַ֣ת חָ֭נֵף כִּ֣י יִבְצָ֑ע כִּ֤י יֵ֖שֶׁל אֱל֣וֹהַּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ τίς γάρ ἐστιν ἐλπὶς ἀσεβεῖ, ὅτι ἐπέχει; πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ κύριον ἄρα σωθήσεται;

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• Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
• Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
• Luke 12:20–21But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’ This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich…
• Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
• Isaiah 33:14–15The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?” He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses…
• Luke 9:25What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
• James 5:1–3Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and…
• Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
• Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
• 1 Timothy 6:9–10Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By…
• Job 31:3Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
• Job 13:16Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him.
• Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Mark 8:36–37What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

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