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


In Context

5 Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.

6 If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?

7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

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

9 "Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

10 But no one says, '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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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