Job 27:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י מַה־תִּקְוַ֣ת חָ֭נֵף כִּ֣י יִבְצָ֑ע כִּ֤י יֵ֖שֶׁל אֱל֣וֹהַּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

Transliteration

kî mah-tiqwaṯ ḥānēp̄ kî yiḇṣāʿ kî yēšel ʾĕlôah nap̄šô

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - when
• *mah-tiqwaṯ*: interrogative + noun feminine singular construct - what is the hope of
• *ḥānēp̄*: adjective masculine singular - godless/profane/hypocrite
• *yiḇṣāʿ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he gains/cuts off
• *yēšel*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he draws out/plunders
• *ʾĕlôah*: noun masculine singular - God
• *nap̄šô*: noun feminine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his soul

Word Meanings

• *tiqwâ*: hope/expectation
• *ḥānēp̄*: godless/profane/hypocrite
• *bāṣaʿ*: gain/profit/cut off
• *šālâ*: draw out/extract/plunder
• *nep̄eš*: soul/life/self/person

Referenced Verses

• Matt 16:26 : 26 For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
• Job 8:13 : 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
• Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
• Luke 12:20-21 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
• Job 13:16 : 16 This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.
• Job 15:34 : 34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
• Job 20:5 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?
• Job 31:3 : 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
• Isa 33:14-15 : 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:
• Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.
• Mark 8:36-37 : 36 For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? 37 For what should a man give in exchange for his life?
• Luke 9:25 : 25 For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?