Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 27:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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Role in This Section
Job 27:8 advances the thought unit with the words “For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?.” Job presses the unit's question through “For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?”, 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 27:8 with 27:7–27:10. Read alone, “For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?” 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 It Needs Context
Job 27:8 depends on 27:7–27:10; isolating “For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Calls for His Accuser to Face the Wicked's Lot.”
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?
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 27:7–27:10 — Job Calls for His Accuser to Face the Wicked's LotSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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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
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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
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