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


In Context

5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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

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

9 |By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

10 But none 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 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 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.