Job 27:8
Good News Translation
What hope is there for the godless in the hour when God demands their life?

New Revised Standard Version
For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?

Contemporary English Version
Such people are hopeless, and God All-Powerful will cut them down,

New American Bible
For what hope has the impious when he is cut off, when God requires his life?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 13:16 And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.

Job 15:34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

Job 20:5 That the praise 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 aversion to them that work iniquity?

Isaiah 33:14,15 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings? . . .

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

Mark 8:36,37 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? . . .

Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself?

Luke 12:20,21 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? . . .

1 Timothy 6:9,10 For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. . . .

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one. 8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?…
Cross References
Luke 12:20
But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

John 9:31
Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.

Deuteronomy 1:45
And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not, neither would he yield to your voice.

Job 8:13
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

Job 27:7
Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

Job 27:7
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