“For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?”
— WEB
Job 27:8
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?”
— KJV
“For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?”
— ASV
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Commentary
"What hope hath the hypocrite, notwithstanding all his gains, when?" &c. "Gained" is antithetic to "taketh away." UMBREIT'S translation is an unmeaning tautology. "When God cuts off, when He taketh away his life." taketh away--literally, "draws out" the soul from the body, which is, as it were, its scabbard (Job 4:21; Psa 104:29; Dan 7:15). Job says that he admits what Bildad said (Job 8:13) and Zophar (Job 20:5). But he says the very fact of his still calling upon God (Job 27:10) amid all his trials, which a hypocrite would not dare to do, shows he is no "hypocrite."
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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