Job 8:13 - Exposition

So are the paths of all that forget God . So, that is, do those proceed on their way by whom God has been forgotten, They spring up in apparent strength and lusty force; they flourish for a brief space; then, untouched by man's hand, they suddenly fade, fall, and disappear, before the mass of their contemporaries. Job is, of course, glanced at in the expression, "all that forget God," though it is the last thing that he had done. And the hypocrite's hope shall perish ; or, the hope of the ungodly man shall perish (comp. Job 13:16 ; Job 15:34 ; Job 17:8 , where the LXX . translates by ἀσεβὴς or παράνομος ) .