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Job 27

Job 27:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Forf what is the hope
tiqvah (Hebrew #8615)
literally, a cord (as an attachment (compare 6961)); figuratively, expectancy
KJV usage: expectation ((-ted)), hope, live, thing that I long for.
Pronounce: tik-vaw'
Origin: from 6960
of the hypocrite
chaneph (Hebrew #2611)
soiled (i.e. with sin), impious
KJV usage: hypocrite(-ical).
Pronounce: khaw-nafe'
Origin: from 2610
, though he hath gained
batsa` (Hebrew #1214)
figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop
KJV usage: (be) covet(- ous), cut (off), finish, fulfill, gain (greedily), get, be given to (covetousness), greedy, perform, be wounded.
Pronounce: baw-tsah'
Origin: a primitive root to break off, i.e. (usually) plunder
, when God
'elowahh (Hebrew #433)
a deity or the Deity
KJV usage: God, god. See 430.
Pronounce: el-o'-ah;
Origin: probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410
taketh away
shalah (Hebrew #7953)
to draw out or off, i.e. remove (the soul by death)
KJV usage: take away.
Pronounce: shaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root (rather cognate (by contraction) to the base of 5394, 7997 and their congeners through the idea of extracting)
his soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Matt. 16:26• 26For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matt. 16:26)

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God,
Hypocrite,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 11:20• 20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life. (Job 11:20)
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Job 13:16• 16This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face. (Job 13:16)
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Job 15:34• 34For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. (Job 15:34)
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Job 20:5• 5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment? (Job 20:5)
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Job 31:3• 3Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity? (Job 31:3)
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Isa. 33:14‑15• 14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath surprised the hypocrites: Who among us shall dwell with the consuming fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting flames?
 15--He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil: (Isa. 33:14‑15)
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Matt. 16:26• 26For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matt. 16:26)
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Matt. 23:14• 14(Verse 14 is omitted in this translation.) (Matt. 23:14)
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Mark 8:36‑37• 36For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
 37for what should a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36‑37)
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Luke 9:25• 25For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself? (Luke 9:25)
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Luke 12:20‑21• 20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
 21Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:20‑21)
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1 Tim. 6:9‑10• 9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.
 10For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows. (1 Tim. 6:9‑10)
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James 5:1‑3• 1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.
 2Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
 3Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days. (James 5:1‑3)
• The wicked’s character contrasted (vers. 8-12). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him offb, when +God taketh awayc his soul?

JND Translation Notes

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b
Others, "though he get gain."
c
Or "giveth ease to."

W. Kelly Translation

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For what [is] the hope of the impurea that he shall gain,{HR}When God shall draw out hisb soul?

WK Translation Notes

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Or, hypocrite.
b
This Hebrew word is a hard word to account for and connect with the scope. Gesenius, &c., take it as "draw out," or "unsheath" like a sword from its scabbard. Gesenius owns, however, that Schnurrer’s suggestion is not to be despised, who takes it as an abridged Hebrew word, with the sense of "demand," as in Luke 12:20.