Devine Scripture

Job 27:8

Job chapter 27 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

v.8This passage

v.9Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 13:16

    This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 33:14

    The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?

  • 1 Timothy 6:9

    But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Job 31:3

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

  • Luke 12:20

    But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?