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Job 27:8
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Job 27:8
8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
8*For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soule?
- Mat. 16.26.
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Job 27:8
Confident expectation or desire for good; as a verb, to expect with trust.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One who pretends to virtue or godliness while concealing a contrary character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Obtained as profit or advantage; won; drawn over to a party; reached.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study26For 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?
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Open the full verse study13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
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Open the full verse study20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
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Open the full verse study20But 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?
21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
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Open the full verse study9But 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.
10For 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.
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Open the full verse study14The 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?
15He 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;
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Open the full verse study1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3Your 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.
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Open the full verse study16He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
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Open the full verse study34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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Open the full verse study5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
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Open the full verse study3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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Open the full verse study25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
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Open the full verse study36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Open the full verse study13¶ 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.
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