Job 27:8
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָחַל
yâchal
to wait; by implication, to be patient, hope
כִּי
kîy
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
בָּצַע
bâtsaʻ
figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
Key Terms in This Verse
כִּי kîy
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
Study H3588 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
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?
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
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.
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 the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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