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Job 27:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
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Quick Meaning
Job 27:10 closes the thought unit with the words “Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?.” Job presses the unit's question through “Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?”, a line that belongs to Job Calls for His Accuser to Face the Wicked's Lot.
Read It With
- Job 27:7–27:10
Read Job 27:10 with 27:7–27:10. Read alone, “Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job wishes his enemy the fate of the wicked and asks what hope the godless has when life is taken and trouble comes.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Job continues from Job 27:1–27:6: Job takes up a formal saying and vows that while breath remains he will not speak deceit or concede the friends' case, keeping hold of righteousness and conscience. Job 27:7–27:10 now develops the next distinct movement: Job wishes his enemy the fate of the wicked and asks what hope the godless has when life is taken and trouble comes. Within that relationship, Job 27:10 closes the thought unit through “Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?.”
Read Job 27:7–10 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 27:7–27:10 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Calls for His Accuser to Face the Wicked's Lot.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 7. 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Verse 8. 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Verse 9. 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
Verse 10. 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
What Remains True
Job wishes his enemy the fate of the wicked and asks what hope the godless has when life is taken and trouble comes. Job's testimony and protest deserve a full hearing without making any isolated poetic claim the book's exhaustive final word. Job 27:10 carries that bounded truth through “Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?.”
How It Can Shape Life
- Hear Job's full claim in Job 27:7–27:10, test it within the dialogue and final verdict, and let truthful protest prompt listening, evidence, and humble response rather than correction by formula. Preserve this unit-specific boundary in the action: The sharp wish arises in forensic conflict and does not authorize personal vengeance or label every opponent godless. The verse-specific evidence to retain is “Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?.”
Continue in Context
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Read Job 27:7–27:10 — Job Calls for His Accuser to Face the Wicked's LotSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 27:7–27:10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 27:7–27:10
Open the fixed Hebrew Job file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Job
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Job's difficult Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, textual issues, speech boundaries, and alternatives in Job 27:7–27:10.
Exact location: Official NET Job PDF, exact translator, study, and textual notes attached to Job 27:7–27:10
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