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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 27:8 - 27:8
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“What hope hath the hypocrite, notwithstanding all his gains, when?” etc. “Gained” is antithetic to “taketh away.” Umbreit’s translation is an unmeaning tautology. “When God cuts off, when He taketh away his life.”
taketh away - literally, “draws out” the soul from the body, which is, as it were, its scabbard (Job 4:21; Psa 104:29; Dan 7:15). Job says that he admits what Bildad said (Job 8:13) and Zophar (Job 20:5). But he says the very fact of his still calling upon God (Job 27:10) amid all his trials, which a hypocrite would not dare to do, shows he is no “hypocrite.”