Job 35:8
World English Bible (WEB)
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
In context
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 no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
Job 35:8 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
- KJV King James Version
- Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art : and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.