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Job 27:8

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite,.... In religion, who seems to be what he is not, a holy and righteous man; professes to have what he has not, the grace of God; pretends to do what he does not, worship God sincerely and fervently, and does all he does to be seen of men; though such a man may have an hope, as he has, of an interest in the divine layout, and of eternal glory and happiness, what will it signify?

what avail will it be unto him? what will it issue in?

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