8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.


In Context

5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?

7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?

8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

10 But none said, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

Job 35:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:8Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art;] and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

35:8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

35:8Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee : and thy justice may help the son of man.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

35:8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:8Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

35:8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit a son of man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

35:8For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.