Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Quelle espérance reste-t-il à l'impie, Quand Dieu coupe le fil de sa vie, Quand il lui retire son âme?
KJV
For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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om their end. Now the end of hypocrisy is the acquisition of gain or vainglory: wherefore a gloss on Job 27:8, "What is the hope of the hypocrite, if through covetousness he take by violence," says: "A hypocrite or, as the Latin has it, a dissimulator, is a covetous thief: for th…
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