Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“If you are righteous, what do you give to Him,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

King James Version

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

Holman Bible

If you are righteous, what do you give Him,
or what does He receive from your hand?

International Standard Version

If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts?

A Conservative Version

If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

American Standard Version

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?

Amplified


“If you are righteous, what do you give God,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

Bible in Basic English

If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

Darby Translation

If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?

Julia Smith Translation

If thou wert just, what wilt thou give to him? or what shall he take from thy hand?

King James 2000

If you are righteous, what give you to him? or what receives he of your hand?

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hands:

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?

Webster

If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand?

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If thou be righteous
צדק 
Tsadaq 
Usage: 41

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

thou him or what receiveth
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

Context Readings

Elihu Condemns Job

6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, 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?
8 Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.

Cross References

Job 22:2-3

Can a mortal man be of use to God? Can even the wisest be of service to him?

Proverbs 9:12

When you are wise you are wise for yourself. When you scoff you bear it alone.

Romans 11:35

Or who has first given to him, that it shall be repaid to him again? (Job 41:11)

Luke 17:10

The same applies to you. When you have done all you have been told to do, you say, we are unworthy servants. We have done what we ought to have done.

Psalm 16:2

I said to Jehovah: You are Jehovah my God. Without you, I have nothing good.

1 Chronicles 29:14

Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything. This is because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already.

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