Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

King James Version

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Holman Bible

If you sin, how does it affect God?
If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

International Standard Version

If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?

A Conservative Version

If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?

American Standard Version

If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Amplified


“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?

Bible in Basic English

If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

Darby Translation

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Julia Smith Translation

If thou sinnedst, what wilt thou do against him? and thy transgressions were multiplied, what wilt thou do to him?

King James 2000

If you sin, what do you accomplish against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do unto him?

Lexham Expanded Bible

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Modern King James verseion

If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thou sinnest, what doest thou unto him? If thine offenses be many, how gettest thou his favour?

NET Bible

If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?

Webster

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּעל 
Pa`al 

Usage: 57
Usage: 0

פּשׁע 
Pesha` 
Usage: 93

Verse Info

Context Readings

Elihu Condemns Job

5 Look at the heavens and see;
And behold the clouds—they are higher than you.
6 “If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
7 “If you are righteous, what do you give to Him,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

Cross References

Proverbs 8:36

“But he who sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 7:19

Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

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