Job 27:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

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  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Job 8:13 : 13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
  • Luke 12:20-21 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? 21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. 3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
  • Job 13:16 : 16 And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,
  • Job 15:34 : 34 For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
  • Isa 33:14-15 : 14 The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings? 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
  • Mark 8:36-37 : 36 What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? 37 And what would a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Luke 9:25 : 25 For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

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    7Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

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    34For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

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