The King James Version Bible

Job 27:8

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

Cross References

  1. 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.
  2. So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
  3. 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?
  4. He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
  5. For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
  6. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
  7. Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
  8. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
  9. 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.
  10. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
  11. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
  12. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
  13. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  14. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.